Dr Adrian Sharman

BEng (Hons), MPhil, PhD

Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre

Technical Fellow - Metallurgy and Materials

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a.sharman@sheffield.ac.uk
Samlesbury Enterprise Zone

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Dr Adrian Sharman
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Samlesbury Enterprise Zone
Roy Chadwick Way, Mellor Brook
Blackburn
BB2 7HP
Profile

Adrian joined the AMRC in 2002, having previously studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham on conventional and non-conventional machining of gamma titanium aluminide sponsored by Rolls-Royce and Sandvik Coromant. He also holds a BEng in Manufacturing Engineering, an MPhil in the Science and Engineering of Materials and is a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Adrian has been awarded the IMechE’s Thatcher Brothers award for best paper on a manufacturing engineering subject and the IMechE’s Joesph Whitworth award for best paper on engineering production.

Adrian is currently a Technical Fellow within the AMRC NW additive manufacturing group. Adrian has extensive applied research experience in the metallurgical responses of materials to processing and is currently working on the influence of additive manufacturing techniques on component integrity.

Research interests

Adrian’s research interests include additive manufacturing, powder characterisation, surface integrity and machining processes for additive manufacture, residual stress formation and novel materials processing.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Nagalingam AP, Tureyen EB, Haque A, Sharman A, Poyraz O, Yasa E & Hughes J (2025) . Metals, 15(7).
  • Nagalingam AP, Shamir M, Tureyen EB, Sharman ARC, Poyraz O, Yasa E & Hughes J (2025) . The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 136(5-6), 2035-2073.
  • Yasa E, Poyraz O, Molyneux A, Sharman A, Bilgin GM & Hughes J (2024) . Inventions, 9(6).
  • Pariyar A, Yasa E, Sharman A, Perugu CS, Yuan L, Hughes J & Guan D (2024) . Materials & Design, 245, 113238-113238.
  • Islam SF, Hawkins SM, Meyer JLL & Sharman ARC (2022) . Additive Manufacturing Letters, 3.
  • Ashworth S, Fairclough JPA, Sharman ARC, Meredith J, Takikawa Y, Scaife R & Kerrigan K (2019) . Procedia CIRP, 85, 37-42.
  • Sharman ARC, Hughes JI & Ridgway K (2018) . Intermetallics, 93, 89-92.
  • Sharman ARC, Hughes JI & Ridgway K (2015) . Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 216, 123-132.
  • Sharman ARC, Hughes JI & Ridgway K (2008) . Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 222(6), 653-664.
  • Sharman ARC, Amarasinghe A & Ridgway K (2008) . J MATER PROCESS TECH, 200(1-3), 424-432.
  • Krain HR, Sharman ARC & Ridgway K (2007) . J MATER PROCESS TECH, 189(1-3), 153-161.
  • Sharman ARC, Hughes JI & Ridgway K (2006) . J MATER PROCESS TECH, 173(3), 359-367.
  • Hughes JI, Sharman ARC & Ridgway K (2006) . P I MECH ENG B-J ENG, 220(2), 93-107.
  • Sharman ARC, Hughes JI & Ridgway K (2004) . MACH SCI TECHNOL, 8(3), 399-414.
  • Hughes JI, Sharman ARC & Ridgway K (2004) The effect of tool edge preparation on tool life and workpiece surface integrity. P I MECH ENG B-J ENG, 218(9), 1113-1123.
  • Sharman A, Dewes RC & Aspinwall DK (2001) Tool life when high speed ball nose end milling Inconel 718™. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 118(1-3), 29-35.
  • Sharman ARC, Aspinwall DK, Dewes RC, Clifton D & Bowen P (2001) . International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 41(11), 1681-1685.
  • Sharman ARC, Aspinwall DK, Dewes RC & Bowen P (2001) Workpiece surface integrity considerations when finish turning gamma titanium aluminide. Wear, 249(5-6), 473-481.
  • Aspinwall DK, Clifton D, Bowen P, Dewes RC & Sharman ARC (2001) “The effects of machined workpiece surface integrity on the fatigue life of gamma titanium aluminide”. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 418(11), 1681-1685.
  • Ng EG, Lee DW, Sharman ARC, Dewes RC & Aspinwall DK (2000) High speed ball nose end milling of Inconel 718. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 49(1), 41-46.

Book chapters

  • Pariyar A, Yasa E, Sharman A & Guan D (2024) , The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (pp. 285-292). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Ridgway K, Turner MS, Sharman ARC, Hughes J, Chapman T & Durante S () Wiley

Conference proceedings

  • Hardy MC, Herbert CRJ, Kwong J, Li W, Axinte DA, Sharman ARC, Encinas-Oropesa A & Withers PJ (2014) . Procedia CIRP, Vol. 13 (pp 411-416)
  • Sharman A, Wika K, Ridgway K & Gouldbourne D () “Impact of number of flutes and helix angle on tool performance and hole quality in drilling composite/titanium stacks”. SAE 2011 Aerotech Congress & Exposition. Toulouse, October 2011 - October 2011.
  • Sharman A, Aspinwall DK, Dewes RC, Bowen P & Li XP () Ultrasonic assisted turning of gamma titanium aluminide. 13th International Symposium for Electromachining (pp 939-951). Bilbao, Spain, 2001 - 2001.
Research group

AMRC North West