Dr Salaheddin Rahimi
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Advanced Forming Research Centre
Personal statement
Salah is a Technical Lead at the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), one of the UK’s seven High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centres. He is an expert in measurements, modelling and control of residual stress and in the mechanical and microstructural characterisations of materials. A key theme of his research is to control materials characteristics and residual stress during manufacturing process of forging and forming. Salah’s previous research had focused on meso-scale fracture and the behaviour of materials under service loads in critical environments, using advanced photography techniques and electron microscopy to determine how microstructural features interacts with cracks. More recently, he has focused on developing novel techniques for measurements of manufacturing induced residual stress to control dimensional tolerance and part’s non-conformance during manufacturing, while retaining desired microstructure. Salah joined the University of Strathclyde in 2010 where he is currently the AFRC's CORE Research Programme Technical Lead, and the chair of Technical Board. He is also supervising PhD and EngD students at Strathclyde Engineering Doctorate Centre.
Salah is a Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and he is registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng).
Prize And Awards
- Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- Recipient
- 9/2018
- Managing Safety
- Recipient
- 4/2018
- A Freeman Citizen of Glasgow
- Recipient
- 4/2018
- Charted Engineer (C.Eng)
- Recipient
- 11/2016
- Professional Member of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- Recipient
- 11/2016
- Team Leading Award
- Recipient
- 2015
Publications
- Modelling and measurements of thermally induced residual stress in IN718 nickel-based superalloy during non-uniform quenching
- Rahimi Salah, King Michael, Amir Siddiq Muhammad, Wynne Bradley
- Materials and Design Vol 250 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113615
- Numerical modelling of the water-quenching process validated through experiments with IN718 nickel-based superalloy
- Kamenicky Robin, Rahimi Salaheddin, Violatos Ioannis, Ritos Konstantinos
- International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol 235 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2024.126158
- Miniaturised experimental simulation and combined modelling of open-die forging of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy
- Connolly David, Fabris Mathieu, Sivaswamy Giribaskar, Rahimi Salah, Vorontsov Vassili
- Journal of Materials Research and Technology Vol 30, pp. 3622-3639 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2024.04.084
- Predicting fatigue crack initiation in milled aerospace grade Ti-6Al-4V parts using CPFEM
- Arcidiacono Mauro Francisco, Violatos Ioannis, Rahimi Salaheddin
- Proceedings of the 9th Engineering Integrity Society International Conference on Durability & Fatigue 9th Engineering Integrity Society International Conference on Durability & Fatigue (Fatigue 2024), pp. 115-126 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12705102
- Optimisation of sample geometry for thermo-mechanical testing of precipitation hardenable nickel-based superalloys with an ETMT machine
- King Michael, Rahimi Salah
- Strain Vol 60 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/str.12458
- Finite element modelling of transient behaviours and microstructural evolution during dissimilar rotary friction welding of 316 austenitic stainless steel to A516 ferritic steel
- Banerjee Amborish, da Silva Laurie, Rahimi Salah
- Journal of Advanced Joining Processes Vol 8 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jajp.2023.100167
Professional Activities
- PhD Viva - Applying the contour method of residual stress measurement to irregular components
- Examiner
- 28/2/2024
- 17th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 30/8/2023
- World Titanium Conference 2023
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 12/6/2023
- 17th International Conference on Engineering StructuralIntegrity Asessment(ESIA17)
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 23/5/2023
- Establishing a mechanism-based constitutive model for simulating superplastic forming in a near-α TA15 titanium alloy
- Speaker
- 12/5/2023
- PhD Viva
- Examiner
- 30/3/2023
Projects
- Marine Vessel Lightweighting (MARILIGHT) Lead_06847
- Rahimi, Salaheddin (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- Robotic Ultrasonic System for In-situ Residual Stress Measurement in Metal Additive Manufacturing
- Walker, Joseph (Post Grad Student) Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Heidari, Hadi (Co-investigator) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Co-investigator)
- Residual Stress (RS) in engineering components yields unexpected and dangerous structural failures, and thus represents a significant challenge to quality assurance in both welding and metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. As automation in welding and AM becomes increasingly prevalent in the Industry 4.0 manufacturing paradigm, so the importance of quantifying RS will grow. In this PhD project, a novel robotic ultrasonic approach to measuring such RS, in-situ, will be developed using the Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing (PAUT) system, to automate the deployment of the measurement in manufacturing applications. For the first time, it will allow truly in-situ measurements of RS to be undertaken at the elevated temperatures associated with welding and metal AM manufacture. The ambition is to use this in-situ measurement system for safety-critical and Industry 4.0 applications, through 5G wireless integration of the robotic system, where the conventional manual and destructive methods of RS measurement are not applicable for high throughput and automated production lines.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2026
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Dogan, Gulsum
- Vorontsov, Vassili (Principal Investigator) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Co-investigator) Dogan, Gulsum (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2025
- AFRC_DIRF_1586
- Easton, David (Principal Investigator) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Co-investigator)
- 09-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- AFRC_DIRF_1887
- Rahimi, Salaheddin (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2021
- Doing More With Less: A Digital Twin for state-of-the-art and emerging high value manufacturing routes of high integrity titanium alloy components
- Wynne, Bradley (Principal Investigator) Rahimi, Salaheddin (Co-investigator) Vorontsov, Vassili (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2024
Contact
Dr
Salaheddin
Rahimi
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Advanced Forming Research Centre
Email: salah.rahimi@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 534 5243