Fiona Sillars
Dr Fiona Sillars BEng (Hons), PhD – Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager Dr Sillars is the Team Lead for the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory. An expert in materials chemistry, degradation behaviour, performance to mechanical loading and fatigue life, Dr Sillars has delivered 100+ interdisciplinary research projects since 2012. Her research includes EPSRC-funded programmes: SUPERGEN (energy storage for electric vehicles), SPECIFIC (buildings as power stations) for Tata Steel and the Solar Soldier (wearable power generation) for the MoD. She was UK representative with the European Energy Researchers Alliance (EERA) for Energy Storage, and granted a JARA-SRSS 2022 studentship on ‘Net Zero Transition: Evaluation of Repurposed Pipeline Materials in Hydrogen Environments’. She has completed an EPSRC-IAA on Dynamic Loading Distribution on Wind Turbine Yaw System Research Interests
Materials for hydrogen storage and transportation Materials for large scale CO2 storage Recycling of battery materials Correlation between material properties and component performance Correlation between material properties and manufacturing process Development of materials with enhanced properties Failure investigation of components
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Fracture Toughness Assessment of Advanced Engineering Alloys for Industrial ApplicationFiona SillarsMaterials Analysis Research Experimental Measurements Practical Design Data Analysis
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Effect of Notch Machining on Fracture Toughness of SteelFiona SillarsMaterials Analysis Research Experimental Measurements Practical Design Data Analysis
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Investigation of the Residual Stress and Microstructure of Wire Plus Arc Additive Manufactured Components Using F22 SteelFiona SillarsMaterials Analysis Research Experimental Measurements Practical Design Data Analysis
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A mechanical alternative to grout for offshore wind turbine foundationsFiona SillarsWind Energy Mechanical Engineering Renewables Fabrication Energy Markets Sustainable Systems Clean Energy Energy Systems Materials Practical Experimental Measurement Design Analysis Research
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Battery recycling – developing solutions for the recovery of minerals and materials of constructionFiona SillarsSustainable Systems Clean Energy Practical Experimental Measurement Construction Analysis Research Dissertation