李培锋，中国国籍，现任英国格拉斯哥大学瓦特工学院副教授。清华大学机械工程学士，清华大学材料加工工程硕士，英国帝国理工学院材料学博士，先后任英国牛津大学博士后和新加坡南洋理工大学助理教授。长期从事轻合金、多孔材料、复合材料及陶瓷等材料的加工过程、微观组织和力学性能之间关系的基础及应用研究。成果应用于航空航天、海洋、汽车、国防、能源和生物医疗等领域。

Weight saving in transport sectors drives the development and application of various lightweight materials such as light alloys, foams and composites in structural components. The final mechanical performance (e.g., fatigue and dynamic impact) of these components is not just determined by the external load but also the microstructure that in turn depends on the manufacturing process. This talk will introduce the effort in my research group in the past years to improve our understanding of the process-structure-mechanical property relationship of lightweight structural materials, with the aim of developing through-process modelling. Specifically, several projects will be highlighted: strain rate dependent behaviour of polymeric syntactic foams, open-cell Inconel foams by the slurry coating technique, 3D damage in CFRP composites, additive manufactured metal and microlattice structures, dynamic behaviour of armour ceramics, and a through-process model to predict fatigue performance of aluminium components.