Additive Manufacturing of Reactive Materials

Based at the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham in Oxfordshire, CDS is the academic provider to the UK Ministry of Defence for postgraduate education at the Defence Academy, training in engineering, science, acquisition, management and leadership.

The work is part of a larger project to understand how AM can work and deliver safe and reliable manufacturing for reactive materials, so the work will have a direct impact on the future manufacturing processes, both by identifying good practice and how safety properties may change.

The work will directly feed into the sponsors understanding of the process.You will have the opportunity to be part of developing new methods of manufacturing that will play a major role in future industrial capability and will have the chance to attend conferences, both nationally and internationally, as well as direct contact, support and liaison with experts in the field and from the sponsor. 

The sponsor will strongly support you and will have direct contact with yourself during their period of study.In addition to the general skills that a PhD student will gain, planning, scientific methods, application of technology to real processes, you will have the chance to be exposed to current and future work in the Defence industry and gain additional experience of industry, as well as a foothold in modern scientific studies.