Description Ground engaging tools are specially designed as sacrificial pieces of metal that improve the life of typical mining machinery components such as the buckets. For example the tips of the bucket of a loader are made from hard wearing materials. However these are also designed to be replaceable in the field efficiently & safely and need to be strong enough not to break-off unexpectedly. A large piece of metal going in a milling circuit of a mining operation and causing significant damage to an expensive crushing equipment would be very embarrassing. So how do you design a ground engaging tool that is strong, hard wearing, easily replaceable, cost effective and that may even have smart embedded technologies? This project will look at how to create GET from a simple design concept to a more complex geometry that can be developed using topology optimisation. The materials suitable will be investigated and advanced analysis techniques to estimate fatigue life and a fracture mechanics assessment will also be performed on selected geometries from basic to topologically optimised shapes. Key Objectives Literature survey on ground engaging tool design & assessment. Erosion, fatigue and fracture mechanics background study. ANSYS finite element analysis design assessment background study. Concepts of GET for use in mining industry. Materials assessment & selection. Topological design optimisation for improved geometries starting from simple geometries. FEA of selected GET with fatigue and fracture mechanics assessments. Design methodology development and evaluation of the designs.