Postdoc position in applying machine learning to lasers available, University of Wyoming.

Are you excited about applying state-of-the-art machine learning to challenging problems? This postdoctoral position will tackle applications in chemical and mechanical engineering using the power of AI and ML, for example controlling graphene-oxidizing lasers (sharks optional). The position is part of the newly-established center on Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing (AIM) at the University of Wyoming.

Minimum qualifications include a PhD with a focus on AI and/or ML.

More Info (https://jobs.uwyo.edu/psp/EREC/UWEXTERNAL/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&SiteId=6&JobOpeningId=10121&PostingSeq=1)


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Position: Director of Research at USC Performance Science Institute

Dear colleagues:

We are filling a position at the Performance Science Institute; and I would welcome being joined by a fellow social neuroscientist. This will be a non-traditional academic appointment, more geared toward someone interested in applied research, business applications, and research with special subject populations (military, athletic, unique occupations, etc). We run a very fun, fast-paced and design-oriented workplace. Applications are ongoing and will close when the position is filled. Feel free to email me with questions.

All the best,
Glenn
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The USC Performance Science Institute at the Marshall School of Business is hiring a Director of Research to drive and execute the Institute’s applied research efforts. We are searching for superstar candidates with a PhD in a related field and experience conducting and publishing original research on performance/mindset topics and with experience collecting and analyzing unique data sets.

Along with NFL Coach Pete Carroll and sports psychologist Michael Gervais, we are building the USC Performance Science Institute to teach, train, and research high performance mindset in any domain. In addition to research, PSI offers courses in mindset and the science of peak performance, provides scholarships to high performers, and hosts events with outliers in business, sports, and the arts. Last academic year, PSI welcomed Kobe Bryant, Brené Brown, Arianna Huffington, and Alex Honnold.

As a respected leader in mindset and performance, we would be grateful if you can share this opportunity with your colleagues and peers. It is an extraordinary time to be at USC and the Director of Research will be instrumental to our Institute’s trajectory. Plus, we are fun to work with.

More info and apply here: Director of Research, Performance Science Institute

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Glenn R. Fox, PhD
Head of Design, Strategy, and Outreach
USC Performance Science Institute
Marshall School of Business
Marshall.usc.edu/PSI

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PhD scholarship in Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (ranked 2nd in the US)

The Division of Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and University of Cincinnati (UC) is inviting candidates to join the research team. CCHMC is one of the most renowned clinical and academic pediatric hospitals in the United States and is a national leader in basic and clinical science. It ranks SECOND nationally among all pediatric centers receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with $144 million in NIH awards in 2017, and houses one of the largest pediatric research programs in the United States, receiving about $220 million in research funding in 2017. The division of Biomedical Informatics focuses on the understanding of comparative/functional genomics, systems biology, and proteomics; genome-wide association studies of diseases; clinical data warehousing and data mining; natural language processing; and high-performance computing.

The Division now offers an exciting new program in Biomedical Informatics. The Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Informatics program is an important cornerstone for a program of academic excellence in informatics at UC and CCHMC. Leveraging partnerships between the UC College of Medicine, CCHMC, and the UC College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the program provides an in-depth knowledge of key analytical concepts that underlie applications of informatics and biomedical data science, ranging from the study of molecules to precision medicine on individuals and populations. Students will learn how to implement, analyze, and improve informatics systems in a real-world, premier health care research and delivery center.

We encourage applications from outstanding candidates with academic backgrounds in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and related fields. Successful applicants to the program typically have a strong quantitative and/or computational background and a keen interest in biomedical and clinical informatics or a related discipline such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. We seek to increase the number of women in areas where they are underrepresented and therefore encourage women to apply. Furthermore, we are committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourage applications from such qualified individuals.

For further information please visit http://med.uc.edu/bmigrad. If you have particular interest in machine learning, natural language processing and clinical informatics, please contact Dr. Yizhao Ni at Yizhao.Ni@cchmc.org.

We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please apply online at http://med.uc.edu/bmigrad/apply.

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Yizhao Ni, PhD (Ni)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
Email: yizhao.ni@cchmc.org
Tel: 513-803-4269

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PhD position and Post-doc position: Privacy-respecting dialog systems

(Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or similar)

Conversational interfaces based on deep learning are becoming more and more ubiquitous. However, the massive amounts of stored speech and text data that is needed for training state-of-the-art models raises serious privacy concerns for its users. Each spoken message may potentially reveal information about the user's personality, may contain critical information (credit card numbers, passwords, etc.), and may convey sensitive information (ethnicity, age, health status, etc.). Voice recordings may even be malevolently used to build synthesized voiced to impersonate users.

The Spoken Language Systems group at Saarland University is seeking new ways to provide dialog technology that is "private by design" by means such as e.g. privacy-preserving machine learning. To this end, we are anticipating the availability of a PhD position and a Post-Doc position starting at the beginning of 2019.

Ideal candidates for either position would have:
1. A good understanding of not just NLP, but of dialog phenomena in particular. Here, an understanding of how privacy-relevant information may arise as a result of dialog behavior (rather than as part of a single utterance) is desirable.
2. Excellent knowledge of machine learning, experience with weakly-supervised methods a plus.
3. Knowledge of and experience with scientific evaluation methodologies.
4. Excellent programming skills, experience with RESTful APIs a plus.
5. Experience with architecting large, heterogeneous, modular and distributed systems.
Salaries: The PhD position will be 75% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L). The Post-Doc position will be 100% of the full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L). The appointments will be for three years with possible extensions subject to follow-up funding.

About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding. Furthermore, the department is involved in the cluster of excellence Multimodal Computing and Interaction. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers an PhD students.

How to apply:
Please send us:
* a letter of motivation,
* your CV,
* your transcripts,
* a list of publications,
* and the names and contact information of at least two references,

as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 3 MB.
Please apply by October 10th, 2018.
Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding the project
should be directed to:
* Thomas.Kleinbauer@lsv.uni-saarland.de
* Dietrich.Klakow@lsv.uni-saarland.de

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Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, has a vacancy for a



Postdoctoral Researcher in water quality modelling



The position is part of a project that investigates the feasibility of quantifying reductions of pesticide pollution in Swiss streams triggered by the National Pesticide Action Plan. Specifically, it investigates how well temporal trends in pesticide concentration data series from established monitoring programs can be detected and modeled.



The project is led by Dr Christian Stamm (Uchem) in close collaboration with the other research partners of Siam (Dr Fabrizio Fenicia, Ruth Scheidegger) and the VSA Platform Water Quality (Tobias Doppler). The starting date is 1 January 2019 and the project duration will be 2.5 years.



We are looking for candidates with a solid background in hydrological/water quality modelling and experience in uncertainty analysis. Experiences with diffuse pollution from agricultural sources is an asset. Knowledge of German or French are an advantage but not necessary.



Closing date is 1 October 2018, but the screening of applicants will begin immediately. Your application should include a CV, motivation letter copies of academic qualifications and the names and contact information for three references)



For further information, please contact Dr. Christian Stamm, Email: christian.stamm@eawag.ch.



We look forward to receiving your application. The full description of the position as well as the application form can be found on this webpage:

https://apply.refline.ch/673277/0651/pub/3/index.html


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Dr. Fabrizio Fenicia
Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Dübendorf
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 587655440

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Knowledge Lab @ the University of Chicago is hiring 4-5 postdocs (+graduate students) at to work on *thrilling* research that explores (1) how to build machine learning methods that produce descriptive & predictive models of the social world; (2) how programming languages shape how individuals and teams think and work via big data and field experiments; (3) how team size and structure influence the way they solve problems and innovate; and (4) how peer review can be re-eingineered to champion the work that will advance science and technology.

https://www.knowledgelab.org/

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Research Associate in «In Vivo Electrophysiology»

The Roche Innovation Center Basel is leading in the research and development of therapies for brain disorders, with a focus on the fields of neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment. We are looking for a Research Associate to join the Neuroscience Discovery group and contribute to our in vivo electrophysiology work. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for setting up and characterizing new in vivo models to assess efficacy and mechanism of action of neuroscience therapies. The job responsibilities include performing stereotaxic surgery in rodents, behavioral assays, immunohistochemistry, imaging, and data analysis.


In this position you will be responsible for:
• Set up of new in vivo electrophysiology rodent models (transgenic, optogenetic and pharmacological models)
• Characterize in vivo electrophysiology mouse models based on qEEG, event-related potentials, and behavior
• Generate and apply novel recording techniques based on human paradigms.
• Record high-quality data following detailed protocols
• Interact with other research associates and coordinate the logistics of in vivo experiments
• Present results of studies or technical data to group meetings
• Maintain and ensure safe laboratory environment and work practices
• Maintain laboratory records and notebook, organize and compile data, and write reports on results

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a B.S, or M.S. in Life Sciences, Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline. At least one year of in vivo electrophysiology experience is recommended. The applicants should possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Prior laboratory experience with stereotaxic-aided microsurgery, dissection and organ retrieval, perfusion, electrophysiology and histological processing is preferred. Applicants should convey robust analytical skills, a strong record of achievement, and demonstrated ability in effectively working in teams.


Degree in biological sciences (Ph.D. not required) and at least 2-5 years of working on preclinical in vivo modeling with preference in neuroscience.
• Sound knowledge of basic rodent handling techniques
• Experience in craniotomy surgical techniques
• Previous experience with transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases is a plus
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• High degree of self-motivation, flexibility and the ability to independently conduct experiments
• Interest in working in a multidisciplinary and multinational environment
• Good knowledge of English


Please note that Ph.D graduates will not be considered for this position.

Recruiting Team Switzerland +41-61-682-2550 for further questions.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

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Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship Translational Electrophysiology Biomarkers for Neuroscience

The Roche Innovation Center Basel is leading in the research and development of therapies for brain disorders, with a focus on the fields of neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment. We are seeking an independent and highly motivated researcher for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Neuroscience Discovery group to develop and apply state of the art in vivo electrophysiology to the analysis of sensory-driven brain responses. You will use in vivo electrophysiology in rodents to produce and analyze brain signals of relevance in schizophrenia, autism, and neurodegeneration. The goal of the project is to establish a novel platform to interrogate brain circuit dysfunction and learn about pharmacological modulators of sensory evoked electrophysiological responses.

As a Postdoc Fellow you will lead a project that aims to interrogate brain circuit dysfunction, and with the use of advanced analytics enable scientists to judge experimental findings and even further find opportunities for improvement of currently established procedures.

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Postdoc vacancy in Leiden

Project description
The perception of emotions in autism and social anxiety disorder
Keywords: psychophysiology, eyetracking, experimental psychology, affect & cognition, multilevel statistics, network analysis, social brain

Emotion processing deficits have been reported in different disorders and are reflected in disturbed emotion regulation, attentional biases, gaze avoidance, disrupted mimicry and emotion recognition deficits. However, the posed, full-blown facial expressions commonly used in emotion research do not always reflect true feelings, which is particularly confusing for patients. People express emotions through emotional signals and cues. Signals are subject to intentional control: an example is smiling, communicating affiliation, tenderness and affection, or, depending on the context, subordinance. Emotional cues lack the same degree of intentional control or awareness. For instance, pupil dilation, tears and blushing are genuine and hard to enact or fake. Although they are principally beneficial to the expressor, they do provide meaningful information to observers and reflect significant states such as arousal, attention, interest and emotion. The question of how patients with SAD and ASD perceive emotional cues, visible in the face or from body language, has not been investigated yet. Due to the high prevalence of such cues in daily life interactions, it is of crucial importance to investigate whether their known deficits in perceiving emotional signals translate to the more subtle emotional cues that are beyond the control of the expressor.
This project is supported by an NWO VIDI grant to Mariska Kret. The project will run in parallel with ongoing projects in the CoPAN lab, directed by Dr Mariska Kret. The research group participates in the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), an interfaculty center for interdisciplinary research on brain and cognition. Patients will at least partly be tested in Germany so the candidate is expected to travel or even temporarily move to Germany for a couple of months per year.

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PhD Scholarship - Crop Genomics, University of Queensland

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation
The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) is a research institute of the University of Queensland (UQ) which was established in 2010 and comprises of four research centres – the Centre for Crop Science, the Centre for Horticultural Science, the Centre for Animal Science and the Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences.

QAAFI’s team of 450 researchers, postgraduate students and support staff undertake high impact science for agriculture and food industries. The institute’s strong partnership with the Queensland Government provides our researchers with a direct link to the agriculture industry in Queensland, and world class field research facilities throughout Queensland. Agriculture is one of UQ’s highest ranked research fields nationally and internationally and QAAFI is a global leader in agricultural research in subtropical and tropical production systems.

QAAFI scientists are driven to make a difference to the agriculture and food industries and have over 150 collaborators worldwide.

Details of the research interests of the Institute may be accessed on the Institute’s web site at http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au

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PhD Scholarship - Production of liquid chemicals & fuels from carbon dioxide & electricity, University of Queensland

The Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in innovative water technology and management. The Centre has established an outstanding worldwide reputation in urban water management and related fields. An award-winning multidisciplinary team delivers practical technological solutions underpinned by fundamental scientific discoveries.

The Centre has six interlinked programs, namely next generation urban water technologies, integrated urban water management, sewer corrosion and odour management, nexus of urban water, health and environment, resource efficient agri-industry and environmental biotechnology. Collaborative linkages with industry are strong. Solutions developed by the Centre have yielded quantifiable benefits in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Australian water industry and other sectors. At the same time, the AWMC has an outstanding academic publication record, publishing on average over 100 papers a year in high quality journals including the most prestigious multidisciplinary journals including Nature and Science, and top discipline journals such as Water Research and Environmental Science & Technologies.

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PhD Scholarship - Data Science and Analytics, University of Queensland

It is an exciting time to get involved with the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, located on UQ’s St. Lucia campus. The School is ramping up its investment in teaching, research and engagement to create an inspiring, diverse and flexible workplace. The direction is backed by a bold, new strategic vision to ensure the School is at the forefront of meaningful research outcomes and pedagogy across its core impact areas of health, data, automation and energy. Boasting strong student enrolments in professionally accredited programs, combined with world-class researchers and facilities, the School is focused on strengthening its position in the global computer science and engineering communities. By attracting the brightest minds and fostering a truly innovative and collaborative work environment, the School will develop global solutions to contemporary issues and mentor the leaders of tomorrow.

The School recognises and values equity and diversity, and encourages applications from any individual who meets the requirements of this position irrespective of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, age or other protected attributes. The School strives to provide an inclusive working environment, and along with the University is committed to supporting staff with family and caring responsibilities by providing policies, programs and initiatives to help balance work and family responsibilities.

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PhD Scholarship - Interaction Design, University of Queensland

The role

We are seeking talented PhD candidates to work on d interaction design research objectives of the Redback Centre, in particular to address the specific research objectives of an Advanced Queensland Platform Technology Project. This cross-disciplinary project in Redback Centre is focused on data analytics and visualisation in the field of power and energy systems. The integrating of meters, digital controls and cloud computing will enable new data products for direct use by multiple disparate industries. Research, development, and utilization of these technologies will profoundly change the status quo, and see new business models, products and services in sectors such as insurance, finance, transport, infrastructure planning, home automation, and energy networks..

You should have background knowledge in the field of Design of interactive information visualisations for big data.

The successful candidate will have the benefit of top mentorship from academic and industry connections as well as access to UQ’s world-class laboratory and computing facilities.

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PhD Scholarship - Business and Economics of Health, University of Queensland

The Centre for Advanced Imaging
The Centre for Advanced Imaging (CAI), a strategic initiative of The University of Queensland, is a leading imaging research facility in Australia, and one of a handful in the world. It brings together the skills of a critical mass of researchers and state-of-the-art, world- or Australian-first imaging research instruments including NMR, EPR, MRI, PET, CT, optical imaging and an on-site cyclotron and radiochemistry facilities. CAI hosts the largest Node of the National Imaging Facility (NIF) (http://anif.org.au/).

CAI conducts research across the spectrum from development of new imaging technologies, analysis of molecular structure, synthesis of MRI and PET biomarkers targeting fundamental biological processes to studies of major diseases affecting a range of organ systems, through to imaging economically significant agricultural animals and plant material, minerals and construction materials.

A multidisciplinary, cohesive student community have come together from all over the globe to CAI to undertake research training. The Centre has an active student association (STAC) that provides many opportunities for networking and professional development, a supportive mentoring structure that will enhance personal and professional growth, an annual symposium and a well-attended weekly seminar program which attracts high profile National and International speakers.

Further details on the Centre for Advanced imaging and ongoing research can be found on CAI’s website http://www.cai.uq.edu.au/.

CAI is committed to supporting the career growth of female researchers and have a number of initiatives to support females in developing and achieving a fulfilling research career at the institute. For more information, please visit our CAI Women in Imaging website at https://cai.centre.uq.edu.au/women-imaging.

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PhD Scholarship - Precision and Quantum Sensing, University of Queensland

The role
A PhD opportunity is available for a student with a relevant Honours/Masters degree to join the Bowen Research Group at The University of Queensland. The successful candidate will be enrolled in a higher degree (PhD) by research at the University of Queensland and contribute to a research project in the field of laser observation and control of superfluid physics.

Domestic and international applicants are welcome to apply.

Proposed start date of March 1, 2018.

Applicants must meet the University of Queensland's requirements for entry to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program, including English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirements, detailed athttp://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/english-language-proficiency-requirements.

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PhD positions in experimental and computational sciences for the
Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network “PoLiMeR”

Background
Metabolic diseases are a burden on the European population and health care system. It is increasingly recognised that individual differences with respect to history, lifestyle, and genetic make-up affect disease progression and treatment response. A Systems Medicine approach, based on computational models fed with individual patient data, has the potential to provide the basis for a personalised diagnosis and treatment strategy. The PoLiMeR consortium (Polymers in the Liver: Metabolism and Regulation) has identified the inherited, liver-related diseases of glycogen and lipid metabolism as the ideal starting point for innovative research training in personalised ‘Systems Medicine’. These diseases are life-threatening for children. Since each specific disease is rare, research efforts are diluted. Our system-based perspective opens possibilities for the application of novel drugs and diagnostic tools to a range of different diseases.

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Postdoctoral Fellow at the Group of Cancer Genome Variation

Job description
Applications are invited for a 3 year full time position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group of Cancer Genome Variation, Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research. The candidate will be employed at the Institute for Clinical Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The position is funded by The Norwegian Cancer Society (DNK).

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Post-doctoral Researcher in Proteomics (m/f)
The Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of Dr. Andrej Shevchenko is offering a position of Post-doctoral Researcher in Proteomics (m/f).



The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, is an international research institute focused on cell and developmental biology. Currently about 500 employees are working at the institute, where half are from abroad with 53 nations represented. MPI-CBG has twice been awarded the title “Best Place to Work” (Academia and postdocs) by the journal “The Scientist”.

We are offering a position of

Post-doctoral Researcher in Proteomics (m/f)

in the Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of Dr. Andrej Shevchenko.

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PhD Research Fellowship in Biogeochemistry

About the position
Position as PhD Research Fellowship in Biogeochemistry is available at Department of Geosciences. Starting date no later than 01.10.2018.

The fellowship period is up to 4 years, with 3 years devoted to research education. The position entails a compulsory workload of 25% that consists of teaching and supervision duties and research assistance.

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PhD Fellowship: National Structural Integrity Research Center

Developing quality category fatigue design S-N curves for AM materials
Course Description
Background

Fatigue is often the main consideration in design to avoid failure. Although AM is very attractive in many applications, the existing fatigue design curves cannot be used and currently there is a lack of fatigue design guidance for AM components which is largely due to the characteristics of AM materials and their anomalous fatigue behaviour such as anisotropic microstructure, manufacturing method dependent fatigue performance, inherent manufacturing defects of various types, large data scatter. This impairs the use of AM materials in some applications, especially in the areas where severe cyclic loading is expected. Therefore, there is a strong industrial need to standardise fatigue design for AM components.

Project Outline

The objective of this study is to develop appropriate procedures towards standardising fatigue design guidance for AM components

The approach will be similar to the quality category given in BS 7910. A literature review will be conducted to collect experimental data which will be analysed using fracture mechanics approach. Many variables will be investigated when grouping the data for assessment such as materials, processing method, defect types (such as gas porosity, lack of fusion, inclusions and micro-cracking), defect location (surface or embedded), defect size and orientation etc. Probability of detection will also be considered in the analysis. A component may be divided into several discrete zones in the context of manufacturing, design and qualification

Although most fatigue data will be collected from literature review, fatigue crack growth rate tests will be performed to verify the guidance proposed from the study. The outcome of the study will provide a series of S-N curves, each corresponding to a quality category, for fatigue design of AM components.

About Industrial Sponsor

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation funds the advancement of engineer-related education and research and supports work that enhances safety of life at sea, on land and in the air, because life matters. Lloyd’s Register Foundation is partly funded by the profits of their trading arm Lloyd’s Register Group Limited, a global engineering, technical and business services organisation.

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