Benjamin Cunningham Email & Phone Number

Southampton University

https://nc2consulting.co.uk/about-us/

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Thesis topic - Crack growth behaviour in martensitic stainless steels in notches with overloads and development of lifetime prediction methods to investigate the efficacy of a lifetime extension strategy – Funded by.
• Development of following skills: research, material preparation, fatigue testing, data analysis, computer simulation (ABAQUS), technical writing, project management and presentation.
• Training and experience with the following: material heat treating and cutting, mounting (in Bakelite), grinding and polishing (steel and aluminium), etching (with Vilella’s reagent), microscopy (optical, SEM BEI and.
• Designed and created drawings for a rig that has become the standard equipment for fatigue testing in three/four-point bend in the Testing Structures Research Laboratory.
• Basic training completed in CT scanning and EBSD.
• Supervised students completing their Masters degrees and mentored new PhD students.

Ferndown Industrial Estate

• Small design consultancy firm across various sector including: Aerospace (Rolls-Royce tooling and BAE), Marine (Sunseeker), Offshore (Subsea structures), Entertainment (advanced stage prop design), Nuclear energy.
• Primary responsibilities - Stress analysis (ANSYS) of concept designs and collaboration with colleagues to ensure designs conform to strength specifications and report writing.
• As the company stress analysis expert, I also provided specialised training to new starters and experienced designers.
• Secondary responsibilities – Concept design from client specification using various CAD packages (Solidworks, Inventor and NX), reverse engineering design, creating part and assembly drawings to various standards.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Engineering

Understand the effects of overloads on crack initiation and growth in a notch stress field. Develop a FEA model to capture plastic strain.

Certification Of Achievement, Clinical Canine Massage Therapy - Practitioner Programme, Pass

Activities and Societies: Full member of the Canine Massage GuildModules include: Canine Physiology, Massage theory and the law, Palpation.

Masters Of Engineering With Honours, Mechanical Engineering, 1St Class

Part Time 85% overall mark in Design Simulation module 75% in Project Engineering module 72% in Dissertation Project 70% in Fracture.

Beng (Hons), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Table Tennis Club (Chairman for 2 consecutive years)