PhD Scholarship Programme Vicente López: Mechanical and Fracture Behavior of Additively Manufac[...]

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Eurecat Metallic and Ceramic Materials Unit develops solutions for obtaining advanced light materials and functional surfaces which can withstand demanding mechanical and environmental requirements. Materials Metàl·lics i Ceràmics - Eurecat Centre Tecnològic Catalunya. Eurecat Metallic and Ceramic Materials Unit in collaboration with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) has opened a position for a PhD candidate to develop a thesis in the field of Materials Science and Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies .

Additively manufactured components often use thin‑walled structures to reduce weight, but their fracture toughness varies with thickness until plain‑strain conditions are reached—typically only at larger thicknesses. As a result, thin‑walled geometries produced by additive manufacturing operate in a regime where fracture toughness is highly thickness‑dependent.

Fracture toughness is a strong i...