About The Role
A talented individual with a background in process and/or materials modelling is being invited to join a team of researchers working on developing digital twins for steel processing in the Advanced Steel Research Centre (ASRC) in WMG, the University of Warwick to work on industrially relevant research projects to improve steel processes and products.
The manufacturing of steel products is a complex multi-stage activity where variations in upstream processes affect the downstream processes and properties.
To increase competitiveness, the steel and metal industries need to understand and exploit the relationships between processing and metallurgical properties, particularly when introducing new grades and/or changes in process.
Steel processing windows are naturally conservative and the development of new or improved grades is expensive and time consuming. For example, plant trials for a new grade can produce 100’s tonnes of scrap, worth anywhere from £200-£3k/tonne. In addition, the timescales to the introduction of a new grade can be years.
Therefore, there is a need for accurate process models that include metallurgical understanding to support new grade development and optimisation within commercially acceptable processing windows. This will allow reduced costs (leaner grades / shorter development times) and/or improved performance (higher strength, more consistent properties), which will enhance industrial competitiveness.
About You
Digital twins offer a way to interrogate scenarios to which real world trials would be expensive or impractical. The challenge being tackled in this work is to develop process models and integrate metallurgical knowledge to provide digital twins for the steel industry which will aid in new/improved grade development and process optimisation.
The metallurgical knowledge, in the form of mathematical functions and rules, is available in the literature and/or is being generated by researchers in the group.
The requirement of this role is to extend out digital twin capability by creating finite element models for specific steel processing stages and work with the team to incorporate metallurgical functions and validate the models. This work will include development of digital twins for both lab and industrial scale processes.
It is expected that the digital twins will be developed within existing modelling platforms, for example, our current models use software such as COMSOL, ThermoCalc, Matlab and JMatPro.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure.
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CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 04 March 2025 at 11.55pm
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Job Description
JD - Research Fellow (Digital Twins for Steel Processing – Modelling) (110114).pdf – 111KB Opens in a new window
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