ProfessorBernard Rolfe

Professor of Advanced Manufacturing

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Supporting Final Year Capstone projects.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Previously taught:
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SEM406 - Advanced Modelling and Simulation
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SED202 - Mechanical Design
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Additive manufacturing of refractory tungsten using electron beam powder-bed fusion process
    Kadali Kondababu - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    4D Printing Soft and Hard Composite Materials with Shape Memory Features
    Seyed Hesam Soleiman Zadeh Mousavi - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Microstructure Evolution and Fracture in Quasi Brittle Materials Subjected to Thermomechanical Loading
    Dheeraj Kailas Valecha - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Machine Learning Supported Process Control in Roll-Forming
    Rukhsar SABIR - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Surface-Based Fracture Analysis Through Image Processing and Numerical Modelling
    Eko Pujiyulianto - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fatigue Crack Growth Behaviour of Additive Friction-stir Deposited Titanium Alloy
    Qianzhen Yu - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Using process modelling and artificial intelligence to understand the defects found in cold spray 3D printing of parts
    Gary Owen - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Next-Generation Bushfire-Resilient Composite Walls
    Ali Abdelkhalek - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Investigation on the Forming Behaviour of Metal/Polymer Laminates
    Matthias Weiss - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2006
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tool Wear Analysis in Sheet Metal Stamping
    Michael Pereira - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Development of Novel Crash Structures
    Ranjani Sudharsan - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Design Fabrication and Evaluation of Novel Polymerase Chain Reaction Devices
    Sugumar Dharmalingam - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Effects of Temperature and Speed on the Wear of Steel
    Paul Okonkwo - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Effect of Residual Stresses in Roll Forming Process of Metal Sheets
    Akbar Abvabi - School of Engineering - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Testing and Modelling to Obtain Material Behaviour for Crash Simulations
    Jonathan Mullins - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2006
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Analysis of Springback Variation in Sheet Metal Forming
    Tim de Souza - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Numerical Modelling of Advanced High Strength Steels
    Alireza Asgari - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2009
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    CAE Crash Analysis of Structures in Oblique Loading
    Paul Collins - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2010
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Integrated Approach to Shape and Topology Optimisation of Mechanical Structures
    Klaus Fiedler - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Forming Behaviour Analysis and Constitutive Modelling of Ti-6Al-4V at Room Temperature
    Ossama Mamdouh Mohamed Badr - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    In-line shape compensation for roll forming through process parameter monitoring
    Buddhika Nuwan Abeyrathna - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2015