Fatigue and corrosion-fatigue behavior of conventionally and additively manufactured martensitic stainless steels for industrial applications

    • Application Deadline
      Deadline:
      20 December 2020
      (application date has expired)
    • Job Salary
      £50,000
    • Contact Name
      Contact:
      Myriam Brochu


    ____FATCO 2019, an international effort____
    This postdoctoral fellowship is within the project entitled "Fatigue and corrosion-fatigue behavior of 13Cr-4Ni steels and additively manufactured alloys for application to large-size components such as hydraulic turbines and machinery," abbreviated FATCO. FATCO has been active since 2019. Join our efforts in this large, multidisciplinary, international project involving 17 interns, one masters student, six PhD students, and four postdoctoral fellows.
    The objective of FATCO 2019 is to develop advanced understanding of corrosion and corrosion-fatigue of Fe-based materials in order to generate testing methods, predictive models and metallurgical specifications better adapted to corrosion-fatigue. These innovations will aid in maintaining cost-effective hydroelectric infrastructure in Quebec and in the machinery developed by SACMI.
    FATCO 2019 involves a number of industrial and academic partners: the Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ), the multinational group SACMI, Polytechnique Montréal, McGill University, the École de technologie supérieure, the Centre de métallurgie du Québec (CMQ), and Politecnico di Milano.
    As a member of the project, you will collaborate with professional researchers and technicians working in our partner companies, institutes and universities. Under the supervision of your advisors, you will learn to lead a research project in its entirety: from conception through to project planning, experimental execution, analysis, and production of practical scientific results. The project is full-time.

    ____Your project____
    Your project will be "Fatigue and corrosion-fatigue behavior of 13Cr-4Ni steels and additively manufactured alloys for application to large-size components such as hydraulic turbines."
    This postdoctoral fellowship project is at Polytechnique Montréal under the supervision of Professor Myriam Brochu and in collaboration with researchers in our partner organisations. The project touches on most aspects of FATCO 2019, including work on corrosion vs fatigue, microstructural evolution and simulation, manufacturing of alloy samples, and scanning techniques including computed tomography.
    In this project, you will work closely with a representative from SACMI. You will also work with a doctoral student whose project is "Sensitivity of crack growth behavior to corrosive environment" and a masters student whose project is "Effect of hydrogen release on intergranular crack propagation mechanisms."

    ____Conditions and application____
    Required: Doctoral diploma in materials, mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics or a related field. Moderate competence in English. Expertise in and practical laboratory experience with fracture mechanics, metallurgy, micrography of metals, and experimental mechanical characterisation of metals.
    Preferred: French language, experience with mechanical design or design of laboratory apparatus.
    Polytechnique Montreal has an equal access employment program and encourages women, members of visible and ethnic minorities, Aboriginal people and persons with disabilities to apply.
    Start date: May 2021.
    Duration: 1 year.
    If interested, please do *not* apply on FindAPhD.com. Please send an email with "FATCO PDF5" in the title to Professor Myriam Brochu at [email protected]. Your message should contain: the project requested; a half-page introduction to your expertise, experience, and professional motivation; your resume; all relevant university transcripts; and an example of your written work, such as your best publication, if any.


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