Muhammad Mohsin Rashid

Email: c3057469@hallam.shu.ac.uk
Research Centre: MERI
Research Group: Structural Integrity Research Group
PhD Thesis Title: Critical Mechanical Properties Characterisation for Fusion Reactor Materials Using Data-Rich Optical Methods
Director of Studies: Dr. David Asquith
Supervisors: Dr. Evangelos Kordatos & Dr. Ben Edmans

SUMMARY

Mr. Mohsin Rashid did his bachelor’s and master’s in mechanical engineering and has over six years of experience in teaching and learning.

His research interests include solid mechanics, mechanical vibrations and material testing. In his brief research career, he has worked on projects that led to a few publications in reputed journals.

RESEARCH

Energy sustainability and NetZero are global priorities. UK’s solution to this is the development of viable nuclear fusion reactors and the UKAEA’s Spherical Tokomak Energy Production (STEP) project is leading this development.

Materials performance requirements in reactor pressure vessels are continuously pushing boundaries, where the operational environment is extreme. A long-standing problem in design of safety critical structures is the validity of experimental data in driving analytical and numerical models, often exacerbated by the size of specimen required to produce valid data in high strength structural materials.

It is critical to overcome this problem to accelerate materials qualification for fusion. To increase confidence and performance in such structures we require development of rich-data experimental methods to drive valid models based on viable physical testing.

This project will apply of state-of-the-art measurement methods to obtain high fidelity full field digital optical data and use these to drive development of analytical models of the constitutive behaviour of advanced steels.