Professor Mahmoud Mostafavi
BSc, MSc, PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Structural Integrity (Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Research interests
I am a mechanical engineer and a materials science enthusiast. My main research interest is structural integrity: fatigue, fracture and creep. I use advanced techniques such as synchrotron X-ray tomography combined with digital volume correlation and finite element modelling to understand the physics of failure in a range of materials. I specialise in image-based solid mechanics in which I integrate full-field techniques such as digital image correlation and finite element formulation to measure engineering parameters for structural integrity. I study damage in ductile and quasi-brittle materials across the length scales from nanometers to component level.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
SINDRI: Synergistic utilisation of INformatics and Data centRic Integrity engineering
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/05/2021 to 30/04/2026
European Database for Multiscale Modelling of Radiation Damage
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/09/2020 to 31/08/2024
MAINTAiN - Multi-scAle INTegrity assessment for Advanced high-temperature Nuclear systems
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2018 to 30/09/2022
Reducing risk through uncertainty quantification for past, present and future generations of nuclear power plants
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/03/2018 to 28/02/2021
8036 - Characterisation, Imaging and Mapping of Fuel Debris for safe retrieval
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/10/2017 to 30/09/2019
Thesis supervisions
Residual Stresses in Clad Nuclear Pressure Vessels and Their Interaction with Thermal and Mechanical Load
Supervisors
Fracture instability in nuclear graphite
Supervisors
The effect of creep strain rate on damage accumulation in type 316H austenitic stainless steel
Supervisors
Effect of biaxiality on engineering critical assessments
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
04/07/2022A method to extract slip system dependent information for crystal plasticity models
MethodsX
New Correlative Microscopy Approaches to Understand the Microstructural Origins of Creep Cavitation in Austenitic Steels
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Evaluation of fracture toughness and residual stress in AISI 316L electron beam welds
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
Influence of microstructure on synchrotron X-ray diffraction lattice strain measurement uncertainty
Metals
In-situ Measurements of Stress During Thermal Shock in Clad Pressure Vessel Steel Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
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