Professor Jones obtained his PhD, on plate and shallow shell theory, from Adelaide University (1974), subsequently joining Swinburne as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering. Professor Jones joined the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Aeronautical Research Laboratory (ARL) in 1976. Until 1993 he held the position of Research Leader in Aircraft Structures and Materials Division at ARL. Professor Jones joined Monash as the Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1993, retiring in 2017, retaining his affiliation as Emeritus Professor. He was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Australia Day Honours List, the highest Award given to an Australian Citizen.

With an H-index of 49 and more than 500 publications with 11,000+ citations Professor Jones has made significant contributions to the fields of composite and bonded structures; airworthiness; experimental mechanics; fracture mechanics; additive manufacturing and cold spray additive manufacturing. With Neil Mathews (RUAG Australia) he is acknowledged as pioneering the use of cold spray to extend the life of operational aircraft and holds two patents on this topic.

Professor Jones has received many accolades, including: Recipient of a 2008 Defence Science Award for his seminal paper on thermo-elasticity which was chosen as one of the Top Ten Defence Science publications in the period 1907-2007; Recipient of the 1982 Institution of Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Award, for his work on Mirage III aircraft; Recipient of a Rolls Royce/Qantas Special Commendation Award for his work on RAAF F-111 aircraft; Recipient of a 1994 TTCP Defence Science Award for Defects in Composite Structures; and Recipient of the 1989 Sir George Julius Medal, awarded by The Institution of Engineers Australia.

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Thesis Title: Investigation and application of thermal spray coatings at Moomba Benfield Trains

Thesis synopsis: For over 40 years, the Benfield Process has been used to produce sweet gas by removing CO2 and H2S from the raw gas at Moomba Benfield Trains. Corrosion taken place at the pressure equipment exposed to the Benfield solution is causing unscheduled downtime and production losses. A research was carried out to define the corrosion mechanism and the root causes that might have been involved. The research concluded that corrosion occurs when the Benfield solution does not meet the defined operation conditions and recommended surface treatment to deal with the issues. The aim of this research is to investigate and propose a corrosion resistant coating as a durable solution which prevents the corrosion risk to the integrity of the structure. Various technologies are being explored and ranked to find out the most effective and feasible solution, and to provide guidance on how the solution should be implemented. Various coatings will be exposed to the Benfield solution as well as the Moomba Benfield Trains operational condition to determine the corrosion mechanisms taking place and durability of each coating under such a condition.

Hoda Adelkhah is a SEAM Associate Investigator working on the ‘Maintenance and repair of ageing infrastructure in remote Australian locations’ project with Professor Nikki Stanford at University of South Australia. Hoda holds a bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering during which she conducted research on nano wear resistant coatings. As a Materials Engineer and a member of Engineers Australia, Hoda has performed variety of QC/QA, testing and investigation activities which has led to improvement solutions and recommendations. In many cases, she was assigned to failure analysis projects to investigate the causes of the failure, and then to recommend solutions to improve the systems and to avoid further failures. Selected failure analysis projects include: Failure Analysis of Cast Iron Paper Mill Dryer; Reverse Engineering of Ni-Resist Cast; Failure Analysis of Hadfield Alloys; Defect and imperfection analysis of cast iron parts of engine cylinders; Investigation of reinforcement bars fracture causes. Hoda has several years of experience working in materials laboratories where she gained experience in operating various laboratory equipment including Optical Microscope, Stereo Microscope, ElectroEtch, Fixed & Portable Hardness Tester, Portable Field Metallography, XRF, etc. 

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National Research Council of Canada / Conseil national de recherches du Canada

Dr Rogerio S Lima received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stony Brook University (USA) in 2001, under the mentorship of Distinguished Professor Christopher Berndt. The topic of his PhD thesis was on the development of thermally sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). After obtaining his PhD, Dr Lima joined the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in 2001 as a Research Associate; working at the Thermal Spray Team. He was appointed as Assistant Research Officer and awarded permanent position at the NRC in 2006; subsequently advancing to the rank of Associate Research Officer in 2008. In 2015 Dr. Lima was promoted to Senior Research Officer, which is his current position at the NRC. Dr Lima has published 66 refereed journal papers and 63 conference papers. His scientific papers have been cited more than 3000 times and his h-index is 31 (source: Scopus – July 23, 2020).

Dr Lima is invited regularly to review papers for international materials science journals and has given invited talks in North and South America, Europe, Oceania, Asia and Africa. He has worked three times as Co-editor and two times as Lead-editor for the Proceedings of the International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC) series and has been Co-editor of eight special editions of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology. In 2020 he was elected as Vice-President of Thermal Spray Society (TSS) of ASM International. Dr Lima’s main research interest is R&D of thermally sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) for aerospace applications.

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With about 20 years of R&D experience in thermal spray, she works closely with academia and industry partners, ensuring support from the development of the advanced, multifunctional and environmental friendly ceramic and hard metal coating solutions and products up to the technology transfer, endorsing novel thermal coating solutions to industrial and environmental challenges.  

Laura has been contributing to the JTST and TSS events for over 10 years and her continuously increasing role as co-editor or guest editor of the Proceedings of the ITSC Conferences and to the Special Issues of the JTST in addition to being on the organisation committee of three topical TSS. She is recognised as an international thermal spray expert being invited to give lectures worldwide and being selected regularly to review grant proposals. She also sits on national and international advisory or scientific committees.  

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Thesis title: Development of Innovative Waste Utilization Methodologies for Material Removal Processes

Thesis synopsis: The focus of the doctoral research is directed towards the development and investigation of some technologies to tackle the problem of such scarp. Manufacturing industries face problems concerning scrap from machining operations such as drilling, grinding and cutting. Current studies are inventing innovative approaches to tackle machine waste in an economic way; for example, to develop micrometer-sized powders or manufacturing processes for coatings and 3D printing technologies. Management of industrial waste can significantly increase production efficiency, making the process both economically viable and environmentally friendly. The use of waste is an area of major concern for manufacturing industries where the required parts are machined to customized dimensions, which results in the generation of machine scrap; for example, chips and swarf. This research will address one of the critical concerns of industry: that is, the use of manufacturing scrap. These research will also focus on process optimization by means of parametric analysis of the machined surface quality, drilled hole positional accuracy, machining power consumption, and tool wear analysis. The recycling of industrial waste is an open problem for many industries.

Malkeet focuses on solving problems related to scrap and waste with innovative concepts to fabricate a new class of scrap-based products in the form of metal powders, coatings, and 3D-printed parts.

Malkeet Singh is currently enrolled as a partnered PhD. student at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India and Swinburne University of Technology. He completed his BTech (Mechanical Engineering) from Punjab Technical University Jalandhar, Punjab (2013) and MTech (Thermal Engineering) from Beant College of Engineering and Technology Gurdaspur, Punjab (2015). His research area involves advanced study on manufacturing, surface engineering and sustainable manufacturing.

Malkeet has published two patents in USPTO (US/16/540,736), (US/16/352,331) along with two patents under processing in IPO (INDIA/201923001267), (INDIA/201811029355). He has recently been awarded Prestigious Fellowship i.e. “Newton Bhabha Scheme” 2020 (will be held at Cardiff University UK). He has been selected to attend the “Global Young Scientists Summit” 2020 organized by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. His project has been selected in “Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science” (IRIS) in STEM” (Indo-US Science and Technology) National Science Fair (2018). Malkeet completed the national sponsored project as a senior research fellow at IIT Ropar with funding from Aeronautics Research & Development Board (INDIA). Recently his project has been recommended for funding support under SEED Division and “Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists” (SYST) DST (INDIA).

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Thesis title: Exploring High Entropy Alloys for Bond Coat Applications

Thesis synopsis: High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a recently developed category of materials which are based on multiple principal elements, unlike single-element based conventional alloys. Several alloy compositions have been reported to exhibit excellent chemical and mechanical properties in HEA literature. There is potential to translate these advantageous properties to surface engineering, as thermal sprayed HEA coatings. One prospective application is as high temperature oxidation resistant bond coats, employed as a part of thermal barrier coatings for turbine blades in jet engines. The concept of this thesis is to explore the materials hyperspace offered by HEAs for novel compositions that can match or outperform traditional bond coat materials such as MCrAlY and aluminides. To this end, members of the Al-Cr-Fe-Co-Ni family of HEAs have been investigated for their phase formation and oxidation properties in the bulk form. Selected best performing alloys have further been studied as thermal sprayed coatings as a part of an HEA-based thermal barrier coating.

Ameey Anupam is a joint PhD Candidate with Swinburne University of Technology and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, she is also a Research Fellow with SEAM. Ameey completed her Bachelors of Technology with Honours in metallurgical and materials engineering from the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. Her research is focussed on developing thermal sprayed high entropy alloy coatings for high temperature applications and decoding the science governing them.

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Professor Singh has two patents to his credit along with seven patents under processing. He has successfully supervised a number of doctoral candidates. He is equally involved in teaching UG/PG engineering students for the last 25 years. He has visited several countries including USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Spain and Germany to attend various international conferences and as part of academic delegations. He has also coordinated several short-term courses and delivered many expert lectures in various institutes in India and abroad. He is a recipient of Kansai Nerolac Excellence Award for the Excellence in Coating Research, Young Scientist Award, Career Award for Young Teachers (CAYT) and Maharashtra State National Award for the Research Work done by the Teachers of Engineering Colleges-2007 Society for Surface Protective Coatings (India), Punjab Academy of Sciences, AICTE and ISTE respectively. He has recently been awarded with Faculty Research and Innovation Award by his institute for his technical contribution to Surface Engineering and Manufacturing.  

Professor Singh is an Adjunct Professor with Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and an  Associate Investigators with SEAM.  

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Azadeh successfully completed (2012) her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) under the supervision of Professor Gordon Wallace (Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI)) and Dr Javad Foroughi from the University of Wollongong. Her doctoral thesis focused on developing biocompatible electroactive multiaxial fibres with great potential to be used as implantable electrodes or power sources within the body media. These fibres were made of a conducting polymer that is intended to act as signal channels and a natural hydrogel which will operate as the channel sheath. During her PhD Azadeh has published more than 10 peer-reviewed publications, including a book Developing Novel Spinning Methods to Fabricate Continuous Multifunctional Fibres for Bioapplications (2018) Springer Link. In 2016/17, Azadeh worked as a postdoctoral research associate at IPRI to develop and analysis electroactive 3D hybrid scaffolds for nerve/muscle regeneration applications. Azadeh is an affiliate investigator of SEAM.  

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Steven received his PhD in 2004 from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, on the topic of high temperature erosion-corrosion mechanisms of Cr3C2-NiCr high velocity thermal sprayed coatings. From 2004–2007 he was employed as a R&D Manager for Bekaert Advanced Coatings, Belgium. His focus was on the development of sputtering targets for the large area glass and electronics industries. This incorporated projects on materials as diverse as Zn, Si, TiO2 and a novel electronics materials that spanned from powder feedstock preparation, industrial thermal spray production, and failure analysis. From 2008–2014 he lectured in materials engineering within the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand. During this period he gained prestigious Marsden Fast Start funding for the development of a novel high temperature carbide composite coatings for improved oxidation resistance. In addition to his academic and applied research in thermal spray coating, he commissioned the metallography and analysis laboratory for the Titanium Industry Development Association, with a principal focus on Ti 3-D printing.   

His current research focuses on novel coating functionalities through manipulation of carbide/oxide microstructures, and use of thermal spraying to promote environmental remediation and biodiversity in marine environments. 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-matthews-31366414a/

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Justin received is PhD in 2007 from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University, on the topic of bluff-body hydrodynamics and flow stability. His research career has spanned a number of problems and applications, all revolving around the use of high-performance computing for the simulation of complex phenomena. These include a post-doctoral appointment at l’Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre (IRPHE) (trans: Institute for dynamic systems research) in Marseille, France investigating tidal driven instability of planetary core flows, time at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) investigating ship and offshore structure hydrodynamics, and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship at Monash investigating fluid-structure based energy harvesting systems. Since joining Swinburne, he has worked on problems in interacting elastic bodies in flows, the development of simulation software for fluid-structure systems for use with high-performance computing, ocean wave power, wave turbulence, microbially-influenced corrosion, droplet manipulation and reciprocating flows. Currently he runs projects in respiratory flows during medical ventilation.

As a Senior Associate Investigator with SEAM, Justin will be working on developing simulation tools to model solid distribution and adhesion during high-speed deposition processes, and working as mentor to SEAM Early Career Researchers.

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