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Personal Statement
I am Director of Knowledge Exchange located within the DMEM Department, University of Strathclyde. I am Chair of the Technical Board of the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). The Technical Board is responsible for the definition and governance of the £1.8m pa core research programme. I am also Principal Investigator for a range of CR&D projects collectively worth about £3m. My background consists of a mixture of industrial and commercial research with particular areas of expertise around metallurgy and manufacturing.
I have worked in both industrial (Doncasters Forgemasters, Mettis Aerospace) and commercial (QinetiQ) research as well as previously spending time in academia at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in High Performance Materials at the University of Birmingham. I joined the University of Strathclyde in 2010.
My research interests focus on the interaction of materials processing conditions, microstructure and final properties. To support this I am a specialist in materials characterisation and work extensively with process modelling. I have many years of experience in working with titanium and nickel based alloys in particular. My PhD was on the mechanisms of superplasticity in aluminium alloy and I have retained an active involvement in the technology / science of superplasticity having run several major CR&D projects on the high temperature forming of titanium.
For three years I was the Engineering Director of the AFRC and played a major role in building and leading the (then) 80 strong research and engineering team.
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford
2005 → 2008
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
1991 → 1996
Bachelor of Science, University of Wolverhampton
1981 → 1985
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Projects
Strathclyde CDT in Lightweighting and Design in Advanced Materials
Blackwell, P., Ion, W. & Evans, D.
1/01/19 → 30/09/22
Project: Internally funded project
Research Output
Examining failure behaviour of commercially pure titanium during tensile deformation and hole expansion test
Kwame, J. S., Yakushina, E. & Blackwell, P., 15 May 2020, In : Journal of Materials and Applications. 9, 1, p. 32-37 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Effect of edge conditions on the formability of commercially pure titanium sheet (Grade 2) at room temperature
Kwame, J. S., Yakushina, E. & Blackwell, P., 10 Jun 2019, p. 1-6. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Open Access
File
Thesis
Characterisation and development of the incremental shear forming process for nickel-based aerospace structures
Author: Guillot, M., 4 Jun 2019Supervisor: Blackwell, P. (Supervisor) & Rosochowski, A. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
β-recrystallisation characteristics of α + β titanium alloys for aerospace applications
Author: Allan, M., 17 Oct 2016Supervisor: Blackwell, P. (Supervisor) & Ion, W. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Prizes
Activities
Journal of Materials Science (Journal)
Paul Blackwell (Peer reviewer)11 Jul 2019 → 30 Jul 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Journal peer review
Image processing for the analysis of Ti-6Al-4V microstructures
Paul Blackwell (Examiner)30 May 2019
Activity: Examination types › Examination
Impacts
Manufacture and application of ultrafine grained metals
Andrzej Rosochowski (Participant), Malgorzata Rosochowska (Participant), Lech Olejnik (Participant), Paul Wood (Participant), Paul Blackwell (Participant), Evgenia Yakushina (Participant), Muhammad Jawad Qarni (Participant), Michal Gzyl (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Economic and commerce