Postdoc in structural health monitoring of flying composite components

Job description

Risk reduction for composite structures in flying vehicles involves using a range of safety factors, one for each risk, resulting in overly conservative design and unnecessarily heavy components. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) enables a weight-optimised platform by reducing overly conservative design solutions, i.e. reducing the safety factors. Instead, real-time monitoring and feedback on structural prognostics ensure the structural certification process. SHM can be a key technology for realising cheaper flying platforms, reducing lifecycle costs, and achieving rapid certification. This is especially true if SHM is used to monitor damage growth.

The project is about evaluating and implementing techniques for structural health monitoring of composite structures, which means placing sensors in or on the surface of a component made from composite materials. In the project, you will work experimentally to develop functional sensor systems, conduct measurements, and create computer systems that collect measurement data and analyse the results. The goal is to detect defects from manufacturing and damage from mechanical impacts.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made
• You must have documented experience working with systems for SHM
• It is important that you are familiar with electronics and electrical measuring systems
• You must also have experience of using data-driven methods
• We expect the candidate to be scientifically skilled and to have published papers in international journals and at conferences

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• We prefer that you know advanced composite materials and their mechanical properties
• We want to see that you easily cooperate and wish to contribute to the advancements of the work group
• Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• Independence

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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To apply for the position

Log into KTH's recruitment system to apply for this position. You are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete according to the instructions in the ad.

The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Documentations supporting that you fulfill the requirements and preferred qualifications

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

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About KTH

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. Our research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy. Read more here

1. Malin Åkermo, akermo@kth.se