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LightForm Research Showcase 2021
The end of the year is fast approaching and so a summary of the excellent work done this year...
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Professor John Humphreys
Professor John Humphreys has recently passed away and will be sorely missed by his former colleagues, students, and...
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LightForm is currently hosting David Fullwood a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department of Brigham Young University
David spent the last year at The University of Manchester using the High Resolution Digital Image Correlation Technique...
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LightForm at the 14th World Conference on Titanium
The LightForm research team had a strong presence at the Titanium World conference, which took place in Nantes, France,...
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LightForm Seminar: Understand and predict the superplastic forming of TA15
Dr Jun Jiang a LightForm Co-Investigator from Imperial College London - Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical...
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LightForm Research Provides Detailed Insight into Twin-Precipitate Interactions in Mg Alloys
An international research collaboration between the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, the Shanghai Jiaotong University, and LightForm researchers from...
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LightForm is currently hosting Dr Ying Zeng who has joined us for 1 academic year from Southwest Jiaotong University
As an Assistant Professor, Ying’s research at the Southwest Jiaotong University is mainly on understanding/modelling the mechanic behaviours and microstructural evolution of Mg alloys at the…
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LightForm is currently hosting Dr Thomas Dorin, a research fellow at Deakin University.
Thomas’s research focuses on the design of high performance aluminium alloys with a particular focus on microstructure characterisation which aims to understand and optimise the microstructure, and…
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LightMAT Conference - LightForm Contribution
The 3rd International Conference on Light Materials – Science and Technology (LightMAT 2019) took place in Manchester from 3 to 5 November 2019
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LightForm Research Team - Visit to Medlock Primary School Manchester
The LightForm Research Team delivered a range of outreach activities to Year 2 – KS1 pupils at Medlock Primary...
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LightForm Seminar: Forming and Joining Challenges in Lightweighting of Autobody Structures
Dr Michael Miles from the Manufacturing Engineering Department, Brigham Young University presented “Forming and Joining Challenges in Lightweighting...
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LightForm Seminar: Introduction to atom probe tomography: From fundamentals to near-atomic-scale insights into engineering materials
Dr Baptiste Gault delivered a LightForm seminar at The University of Manchester on Monday 24 June 2019, to introduce atom...
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LightForm Seminar: Adventures in lowering the cost of titanium alloy components in the Steel City
Dr Martin Jackson from Sheffield University delivered a LightForm Seminar at The University of Manchester on Friday 1 March 2019, entitled ...
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LightForm welcomes new PhD cohort
The LightForm team at The University of Manchester welcomed our new LightForm PhD cohort, from the EPSRC Centre for...
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LightForm Alumni - Dr. Michael Kenyon tells us about his studies at Manchester and how they have shaped his career
Upon completion of my PhD in October 2018, I started my career as a Materials Engineer at Innoval Technology, a...