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
- 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
- Leary, M.,Khorasani, M.,Sarker, A.,Tran, J.,Fox, K.,Downing, D.,du Plessis, A. (2021). Surface roughness In: Fundamentals of Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Metals, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Hill, D.,Williamson, T.,Lai, C.,Leary, M.,Brandt, M.,Choong, P. (2021). Automated resection planning for bone tumor surgery In: Computers in Biology and Medicine, 137, 1 - 11
- Hill, D.,Williamson, T.,Lai, C.,Leary, M.,Brandt, M.,Choong, P. (2021). A Novel Robot with a Toroidal Workspace for Coring Applications In: Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2021), Delft, Netherlands, 12-16 July 2021
- Medvedev, A.,Lui, E.,Edwards, D.,Leary, M.,Ma, M.,Brandt, M. (2021). Improved ballistic performance of additively manufactured Ti6Al4V with a-ß lamellar microstructures In: Materials Science and Engineering A, 825, 1 - 11
- Downing, D.,Millett, J.,McMillan, M.,Leary, M.,Wischeropp, T.,Emmelmann, C.,Brandt, M. (2021). The Effect of Geometry on Local Processing State in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V Lattices In: Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation, 10, 508 - 523
- Tee, Y.,Maconachie, T.,Pille, P.,Leary, M.,Do, T.,Tran, P. (2021). From nature to additive manufacturing: Biomimicry of porcupine quill In: Materials and Design, 210, 1 - 13
- Tee, Y.,Leary, M.,Tran, J. (2021). Porcupine Quill: Buckling Resistance Analysis and Design for 3D Printing In: Proceedings of the 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction 2019 (EASEC16), Springer, Singapore
- Maconachie, T.,Leary, M.,Tran, P.,Harris, J.,Liu, Q.,Lu, G.,Ruan, D.,Faruque, O.,Brandt, M. (2021). The effect of topology on the quasi-static and dynamic behaviour of SLM AlSi10Mg lattice structures In: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, , 1 - 20
- 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 Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Design for Additive Manufacture, Topology and shape optimisation, Medical Implant Design, Material Selection