William Griffiths

Dr.

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Bill Griffiths’s research interests are as follows:

Interfacial heat transfer during metallurgical processing
Defects in light alloys and their effects on mechanical properties
Lost foam casting
Radioactive particle tracking to study inclusions in liquid metals
Dr Griffiths currently supervises postgraduate researchers in the following areas:

Oxide film defects in Zn and Zn-Al alloys
The effect of casting in a He atmosphere on fatigue properties of Al alloys
Positron emission particle tracking to study inclusions in liquid metals
Quality of DC cast Al alloys
Fluidity in the lost foam casting process, and the effect of using low molecular weight foam patterns

20002023

Research activity per year

Network

University of Birmingham

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

University of Cambridge

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

Beshay Steel

External organisation: Private Company

JVM Castings Ltd

External organisation: Unknown

The American University in Cairo

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

Rolls Royce PLC

External organisation: UK industry/commerce

Sakarya University

External organisation: Unknown

University of Manchester

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

Isotron

External organisation: Unknown

University of Greenwich

External organisation: University or other Higher Education Institute

Alcoa

External organisation: Unknown