Ryan is a 4th year Mechanical and Materials Engineer from Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. His MEng project is on the development of titanium alloys for biomedical application. Particularly looking at using titanium copper alloys for hip implants as they have theoretically high strength and copper has a strong antibacterial effect preventing biofilms from building up, which could otherwise cause infection. In the summer of 2020 he also did a summer project on small scale mechanical testing of titanium ruthenium alloys. In that project he created a FEM small punch model which I validated successfully and produced two potential titanium ruthenium bcc superalloys.
Ferritic/Titanium superalloys and refractory materials