Webinar Free

Navigating Industry 4.0 – Materials

12pm – 1pm 29 May 2025

 

You are invited to join us for the third webinar in our new series Navigating Industry 4.0 in Materials, Minerals & Mining where will we focus on materials

 

You will hear from:

Professor Michael Shaver, FRSC, FIMMM

Director of Sustainable Futures; Director of Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, University of Manchester

Defining Quality in Plastics Recycling

  • Plastics are a messy problem highlighted by the dichotomy of their necessity across diverse sectors and their value at end of life. But is this as simple as doing away with single use plastic?
  • This talk will explore the complex nature of our plastic environment, the interdependency of plastics on our goals for lowering our carbon footprint and increasing our expected lifespan, while also showcasing how data is essential to enabling a sustainable future for plastics.
 
Dr. Jimmy Campbell

Chief Technology Officer, Plastometrex Ltd

PIP Testing – Accelerating the Mechanical Testing of Metallic Components

  • Profilometry-based indentation Plastometry (PIP) can be used to determine the stress-strain characteristics of metallic materials from indentation testing of a small, localized area. The procedure has three key steps: (1) creation of the indentation using a spherical indenter, (2) measurement of the residual indent profile (3) determination of the mechanical properties using an (accelerated) iterative FEM simulation of the indentation process.

  • In the final step, plasticity parameters in a constitutive law (within an indentation finite element model) are repeatedly changed until optimum agreement between measured and predicted residual profile shapes is obtained. The technique characterises the stress-strain relationship of the material, including the yield stress and ultimate tensile strength.

  • This talk will explain the fundamental science behind the testing technique, and explore some of the benefits and issues for it to be applied to different metallic systems.

 
Dr Donna Dykeman

R&D Engineer and Manager, ELM Research & Consulting Ltd

 

 

Alexander Dhesi 
 

 

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