Dr. Amir A. Shirzadi  

BEng   MSc   PhD (Cambridge)   FIMMM   CEng   SenMWeldI

Specialist in joining and welding processes

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Visiting Scientist: Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge

Lecturer: Materials Engineering, The Open University

Director: Cambridge Joining Technology Ltd.

Executive Editor: Journal of Energy Materials

Fellow (Transfer of Knowledge): Marie Curie

Tel:  +44 (0) 1223 334338
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 334567

Email: as10043@cam.ac.uk

Memberships

Chartered Engineer Engineering Council-UK

Fellow Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3)

Professional Member The Institute of Welding (TWI)

UK delegate Commission XVII (IIW)

Research Fellow Armourers and Brasiers Company

Old Darwinian Darwin College, Cambridge

Alumnus King's College, Cambridge

Books

Structural Materials for Energy Applications

  • Editor, to be published by Woodhead Publishing Ltd, 2010.
Microjoining and Nanojoining
  • Editor of the chapter on solid-state bonding in collaboration with University of Waterloo, Canada, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, ISBN 978-1-84569-179-0, May 2008.

Web Articles

Recent papers

  • Dai H., Mark A.F., Moat R., Shirzadi A.A., Bhadeshia H.K.D.H., Karlsson L. and Withers P.J. (2009): Modelling of residual stress minimization through martensitic transformation in stainless steel welds, 9th International Seminar on Numerical Analysis of Weldability, Graz Technical University, Austria September 2009.
     
  • Shirzadi A.A. and Bhadeshia H.K.D.H. (2009): Stainless steel weld metal designed to mitigate residual stresses, Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2009, pp.559-565.
     
  • Shirzadi A.A., Abreu H., Pocock L., Klobcar D. , Withers P. and Bhadeshia H.K.D.H. (2009): Bainite orientation in plastically deformed austenite, International Journal of Materials Research, Vol.100, No. 1, 2009, pp.40-45.
     
  • Shirzadi A.A., Zhu Y. and Bhadeshia H.K.D.H. (2008): Joining Ceramics to Metals using Metallic Foam. Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 496, Issues 1-2, 2008, pp. 501-506.

Full list of publications (pdf document)

Granted Patents
  Date Summary
USA Patent 6,669,534 B2 30 December 2003 To provide a non-chemical method to remove the surface oxide from various alloys to improve bonding, and coating processes.
UK Patent 2380491 15 July 2005
European Patent 1009579 UK, Germany, France 28 January 2004 To provide a method of bonding similar or dissimilar metals having an interlayer of lower melting point, and using a temperature gradient across the bond interface.

USA Patent 6,257,481 B1		 10 July 2001

UK Patent 2386578
29 December 2004
A new method for flux-free brazing aluminium alloys in air.

 

Awards and Grants

2009-10 Marie Curie Fellowship (Transfer of Knowledge), University of Cambridge and Krakow AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland.

2006 Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Research Fellowship and Award in recognition of recent research on joining advanced materials.

2004-05 Smart Award from DTI for CAMJET (Cambridge Advanced Method for Joining Engine Turbines). Total of £60,000 was raised for one-year of work in the University of Cambridge.

2001-02 Full Research Grant from Centre Francais pour l’Accueil et les Échanges Internationaux (EGIDE), Paris, France. Awarded a full research grant for 11 months to develop a new joining method in École Polytechnique de l’Université de Nantes.

1999 Cook/Ablett Award from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London, UK, for an outstanding published paper in the field of metals.

1998 International Henry Granjon Prize from the International Institute of Welding (IIW) for developing a novel bonding method for advanced aluminium alloys and composites.

1997 Lundgren Award from University of Cambridge in recognition of PhD research.

1995-97 Overseas Research Students Award (ORS) from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom.

Postal Address

Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy
University of Cambridge
Pembroke Street
Cambridge CB2 3QZ
United Kingdom