Mrs. Mahsa Esfahani
PhD Student
- Areas:
-
Electric Vehicle Group
Industrial Research Institute Swinburne - Office:
- IR207
- Phone:
- +61 3 9214 4968
- Fax:
- +61 3 9214 5555
- E-Mail:
- MESFAHANI@swin.edu.au
- Campus:
- Hawthorn
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia
Qualifications
- Master of Material Engineering – (Iran University of Science and Technology)
- Bachelor of Material Engineering – (Iran University of Science and Technology)
PhD Research Area
Topic
- Surface engineering of hybrid joints for sub assembly
Objective
Nowadays using light weight and dissimilar materials such as aluminium and magnesium in automotive industry is more widespread. The ultimate goal is to increase fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emission. Joining is one of the issues that arise from using different materials other than steel for the automotive body structure.Self–pierce riveting (SPR) is a mechanical fastening technique that provides an alternative to resistant spot welding and has recently attracted a great deal of attention for joining dissimilar materials.
Fretting and corrosion are the main defects for self pierced riveted joints. The main focus of this research is coating of self piercing rivets and possible solution for upgrading the application.
- Supervisor: Dr. Yatchoy Wong
- First Co–Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Durandet
- Second Co–Supervisor: Dr. James Wang
- Third Co–Supervisor: Dr. Jie Zhang
Electric Vehicle Project group
Publications
- M. Esfahani, R.Gholamipour, SH.Mirdamadi, A.Abdolhoseini, T.Ohkubo "Effects of Ti and C additions on the nanostructure and magnetic properties of (Nd, Pr)– (Fe, Co, Ga)–B melt–spun nanocomposite ribbons", Physica, B 405 (2010) 3838–3841.