STAFF PROFILE
Professor Martin Leary
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399256177
Email:
martin.leary@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Martin Leary began his scholarly career as a postgraduate student within the Engineering Design Group at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Melbourne. As a member of the RMIT School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, he proudly continues to engage with industry and develop novel research outcomes within four research fields:
- Engineering design and engineering education
- Systems approaches and optimisation
- Sustainable automotive system design
- Renewable energy
Honours and awards
- 2009 – International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED)
Reviewers Favourite prize - 2005 – Australian Road Transport Suppliers Association (ARTSA)
Annual scholarship prize - 2004 – National Transport Commission (NTC)
Research scholarship - 2002 – Australian Forging Group (AFG) annual awards
Honourable mention – Light alloy forging design - 1999 – Advanced Engineering Centre for Manufacturing (AECM) scholarship
Collaboration between University of Melbourne and National Forge Limited
Teaching activities
- Mechanical Design 1 (MIET2136)
- Management of Design (MIET1199)
- Mechanical Design 3 (MIET2004)
- Offshore teaching (Singapore Institute of Commerce)
- Management of Design
- Renewable Energy Systems
- 2000-2005 – PhD: "Mass reduction of Fatigue-Limited, Safety-Critical (FLSC), ferrous metal automotive components by forged light alloy substitution". Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Melbourne.
- 1996-2000 – B.Sc., University of Melbourne.
- 1995-1999 – BEng. Mech. (Hons.), University of Melbourne.
Professional association and committee involvement
- Co-editor of the International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT). The inaugural conference was held in 2008 in Melbourne. Due to the conference success, ICSAT now alternates annually between Australia, Germany and the United States. The conference proceedings have been adopted by Springer-Verlag for publication.
- Member of the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) and has acted on the International Review panel since assisting with the ICED’05 in Melbourne.
- Member of the Design Society
- Lozanovski, B.,Downing, D.,Tino, R.,Tran, P.,Shidid, D.,Emmelmann, C.,Ma, M.,Choong, P.,Brandt, M.,Leary, M. (2021). Image-Based Geometrical Characterization of Nodes in Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures In: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 8, 51 - 68
- Tino, R.,Yeo, A.,Brandt, M.,Leary, M.,Kron, T. (2021). The interlace deposition method of bone equivalent material extrusion 3D printing for imaging in radiotherapy In: Materials & Design, 199, 1 - 14
- Pandelidi, C.,Maconachie, T.,Bateman, S.,Kelbassa, I.,Piergert, S.,Leary, M.,Brandt, M. (2021). Parametric study on tensile and flexural properties of ULTEM 1010 specimens fabricated via FDM In: Rapid Prototyping Journal, 27, 429 - 451
- Piola, R.,Leary, M.,Santander, R.,Shimeta, J. (2021). Antifouling performance of copper-containing fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3-D printing polymer filaments for marine applications In: Biofouling, 37, 206 - 221
- Noronha, J.,Ma, M.,Leary, M.,Kyriakou, E.,Brandt, M. (2021). Hollow-walled lattice materials by additive manufacturing: Design, manufacture, properties, applications and challenges In: Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 25, 1 - 20
- Fordyce, I.,Annasamy, M.,Sun, S.,Fabijanic, D.,Corujeira Gallo, S.,Leary, M.,Easton, M.,Brandt, M. (2020). The effect of heat treatment on the abrasive and erosive wear behaviour of laser metal deposited Fe–28Cr–2.7C alloy In: Wear, 458-459, 1 - 12
- Sarker, A.,Leary, M.,Fox, K. (2020). Metallic additive manufacturing for bone-interfacing implants In: Biointerphases, 15, 1 - 18
- Tee, Y.,Tran, P.,Leary, M.,Pille, P.,Brandt, M. (2020). 3D Printing of polymer composites with material jetting: Mechanical and fractographic analysis In: Additive Manufacturing, 36, 1 - 14
- Lozanovski, B.,Downing, D.,Tino, R.,du Plessis, A.,Tran, P.,Jakeman, J.,Shidid, D.,Emmelman, C.,Ma, M.,Choong, P.,Brandt, M.,Leary, M. (2020). Non-destructive simulation of node defects in additively manufactured lattice structures In: Additive Manufacturing, 36, 1 - 19
- Khorasani, A.,Gibson, I.,Ghasemi, A.,Brandt, M.,Leary, M. (2020). On the role of wet abrasive centrifugal barrel finishing on surface enhancement and material removal rate of LPBF stainless steel 316L In: Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 59, 523 - 534
- Additive Manufactured Lightweight Ballistic Protection Materials. Funded by: Defence Science and Technology Group - Contract from (2019 to 2022)
- Responsive Access to Space (CRC-P 5000038). Funded by: CRC-P Cooperative Research Centre Project (DefendTex) from (2018 to 2021)
- Lightweight IP Cockpit System. Funded by: Ford Motor Company - Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2023)
- Advanced CAE simulation process for 3D Printed (Additive Manufacture) Metallic Lattice Structures subjected to dynamic impact loading. Funded by: Ford Motor Company Grant - Competitive from (2018 to 2021)
- ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Lightweight Automotive Structures (ATLAS umbrella record). Funded by: ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres Grant 2015 from (2017 to 2023)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Design for Additive Manufacture, Topology and shape optimisation, Medical Implant Design, Material Selection