Dr Bill Daniel - UQ reSEARCHers (Research Interests)

	Research Interests

2008 - 2011	Incremental press forming
	A process has been designed and patented to form a profile from a flat sheet by means of a continuous incremental press forming process - an alternative to roll forming. The project investigates the optimal design of tooling for the new process.
Keywords:	design optimization, press forming

2008 - 2011	Rail squats
	A rail squat is a depression in the running surface of a railway line produced by a subsurface crack. A current project with the CRC for Rail Innovation aims to study the conditions that lead to such problems. The project involves collaboration between University of Queensland, Monash University and Central Queensland University.
Keywords:	rail squat, fatigue, fracture mechanics

	Rail corrugation project
	With Dr Paul Meehan, and in collaboration with Queensland Rail and other state railways, working on a Rail CRC project to predict the rate of growth of corrugations in railway lines.

	Surface smoothing
	Working on improving methods of contact modelling for finite element analysis, in collaboration with Professor Ted Belytschko at Northwestern University, USA and Dr Guilio Ventura in Turin, Italy.