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Dr Fuad Khoshnaw

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and Media

School/department: School of Engineering and Sustainable Development

Address: 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 207 8886

E: fuad.khoshnaw@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Dr Fuad Khoshnaw is a senior academic and researcher at the School of Engineering and Sustainable Development at 51ºÚÁÏÉçÇø in the United Kingdom, where he has served as a senior lecturer since joining in 2018. He holds a PhD in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University, UK, which he was awarded in 2010. Dr Khoshnaw is also recognized as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. In 2005, he became a Chevening Scholar, joining the Chevening Technology Enterprise (CTES) program and completing the Innovation and Technology course at London Business School, UK. To date, Dr Khoshnaw has published over 80 papers in fields including welding, corrosion, biomaterials, additive manufacturing, fracture mechanics, and failure analysis, and he has edited six books on welding and corrosion. Dr Khoshnaw is also an active member of several international editorial boards and serves as a reviewer for academic books and journal submissions.

Research group affiliations

Institute of Engineering Sciences (IES) 

Publications and outputs

Recent Publications 2021-2025

1-     Darya Alontseva, Hasan İsmail Yavuz, Bagdat Azamatov, F. Khoshnaw, Yuliya Safarova (Yantsen), Dmitriy Dogadkin, Egemen Avcu, Rıdvan Yamanoğlu, Improving Corrosion and Wear Resistance of 316L Stainless Steel via In Situ Pure Ti and Ti6Al4V Coatings: Tribocorrosion and Electrochemical Analysis, materials, MDPI,  Vol. 18, No. 3, 2025.

2-      Ridvan Yamanoglu, Darya Alontseva, Abdollah Bahador, Huseyin Uzuner, F. Khoshnaw, Onur Muratal, Serap Gumus, Ismail Yavuz, Yahya Ozdemir A New Approach to Titanium-Hydroxyapatite Bio Composite: Pressure-Assisted Coating on the Antibacterial and Electrochemical Properties of Ti6Al4V, Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Johnson Matthey Plc. Vol. 69, No. 1, 2025, pp. 126-138,

3-     Darya Alontseva, Yuliya Safarova (Yantsen), Sergii Voinarovych, Aleksei Obrosov, Ridvan Yamanoglu, F. Khoshnaw, Assem Nessipbekova, Aizhan Syzdykova, Hasan Ismail Yavuz, Sergii Kaliuzhnyi, Alexander Krasavin, Bagdat Azamatov, Alexandr Khozhanov, Farkhad Olzhayev and Sabine Weiß, Microplasma-Sprayed Titanium and Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Ti6Al4V Alloy: in vitro Biocompatibility and Corrosion Resistance: Part I, Johnson Matthey Technol. Rev., Vo. 69. No. 1, 2025, pp. 5–58.

  

4-     Darya Alontseva, Yuliya Safarova (Yantsen), Sergii Voinarovych, Aleksei Obrosov, Ridvan Yamanoglu, F. Khoshnaw, Assem Nessipbekova, Aizhan Syzdykova, Hasan Ismail Yavuz, Sergii Kaliuzhnyi, Alexander Krasavin, Bagdat Azamatov, Alexandr Khozhanov, Farkhad Olzhayev and Sabine Weiß, Microplasma-Sprayed Titanium and Hydroxyapatite Coatings on Ti6Al4V Alloy: in vitro Biocompatibility and Corrosion Resistance: Part II, Johnson Matthey Technol. Rev., Vo. 69. No. 1, 2025, pp. 59–75.

  

5-     Kuat Kombayev, F. Khoshnaw, Gulzhaz Uazyrkhanova, Gulzhaz Moldabayeva, Experimental and Mathematical Modelling Investigation of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) for Surface Hardening of 20Ch Steel, materials, MDPI, Vol. 17, No. 24, 2024.

6-     Sami Bouzayeni, Fathi Gharbi, Tarek Benameur, Khaled J Al-Fadhalah, F. Khoshnaw, Ball Burnishing Induces Shear Bands proliferation In Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass: A comparison between experiments and numerical predictions, Materials Engineering and Performance, Springer, published online 2024.

7-     Imane Mehdaoui, Zineb Majbar, El Mokhtar Saoudi Hassani, Rachid Mahmoud, Mohamed Ben Abbou, Loubna Bougarne, El Hassan Sakar, Mustapha Taleb, Zakia Rais, F. Khoshnaw, Optimizing Composting Process Through Mixture Design for a Sustainable Valorization of Residual Biomass from Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Environmental Research Communications, IOP Publishing, Vol. 6, 2024.

8-     Ashref Shwigi, F. Khoshnaw, Corrosion Rate Prediction for Underground Gas Pipelines Using a Levenberg-Marquardt Artificial Neural Network (ANN),  Advances in Materials Science, Sciendo, accepted, Vol. 24, No. 4 (82) 2024.

9-     Ridvan Yamanoglu, Anka Trajkovska Petkoska, Hasan Ismail Yavuz, Huseyin Uzuner, Marian Drienovsky, Ilija Nasov, F. Khoshnaw, Impact of Cu and Ce on the Electrochemical, Antibacterial, and Wear Properties of 316L Stainless Steel: Insights for Biomedical Applications, Materials Today Communications, Vol. 40, 2024.

10- Amina Dinari, Tarek Benameur, F. Khoshnaw, Thermo-mechanical Aging of Carbon-Black Reinforced Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Under Cyclic Loading, Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Emerald, Vol. 20, No.3, 2024.

11- Darya Alontseva, Yuliya Safarova, Sergii Voinarovych, Aleksei Obrosov, Ridvan Yamanoglu, F. Khoshnaw, Hassan Ismail Yavuz, Assem Nessipbekova, Aizhan Syzdykova, Bagdat Azamatov, Alexandr Khozhanov and Sabine Weiß, Biocompatibility and Corrosion of Microplasma-Sprayed Titanium and Tantalum Coatings versus Titanium Alloy, Coatings, MDPI, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2024.

12- , Blister test to evaluate the multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) - Woven carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy used for repairing pipelines, Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Emerald, Vol. 19, No. 5, July 2023.

13- Hayder H. Khalil, Ibtihal A. Mahmood, F. Khoshnaw, Fatigue and impact properties of single and double resistance spot welding for high-strength steel used in automotive applications, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Springer, March 2023.

14- Prakash Chandra Mishra , Anand Gupta, Saikat Samanta, Rihana B. Ishaq and F. Khoshnaw, Framework for Energy-Averaged Emission Mitigation Technique Adopting Gasoline-Methanol Blend Replacement and Piston Design Exchange, energies, MDPI, Vol. 15, issue 19, Sept. 2022, pp. 1-26.

15- Hayder Khalee, Ibtihal Mahmood, F. Khoshnaw, Optimization Process of Resistance Spot Welding for High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel using Taguchi method, Open Eng., Vol. 12, June 2022, pp. 6180-690, Site Score 2.2.

16- Hayder H. Khalil, Ibtihal A. Mahmood, F. Khoshnaw, Analysis of double resistance spot welding's failure in high strength low alloy steel, Journal of Applied Engineering Science, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2023, pp. 547-560, 2023.

17- Talal A. Aljohani, Majed O. Alawad, Sally Elkatatny, A.I. Alateyah, Meteb T. Bin Rubayan, Mohammed A. Alhajji, Muntathir I. AlBeladi, F. Khoshnaw, W.H. El-Garaihy, Electrochemical Behavior of SiC-coated AA2014 Alloy Through Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, ASM International, May 2022, pp. 1-13.

18- , , , D. Miroud, Mustapha Yasar, , Microstructure, Tribological, and Electrochemical Characterization of Hardfacing WC-Ni-Cr on AISI 1045 Carbon Steel Alloy, Journal of Engineering Materials and Performance, ASM International, Feb., 2022, pp. 1-12.

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19- Shahnaz Shahani, Zhongquan Gao, Mumtaz A. Qaisrani, Naveed Ahmed, Haseeb Yaqoob, F. Khoshnaw and Farooq Sher, Preparation and Characterisation of Sustainable Wood, Plastic Composites Extracted from Municipal Solid Waste, polymers, MDPI. Vol. 13, No. 21, 2021, pp. 1-17.

20- F. Khoshnaw,  C. Marinescu, A. Sofronia, C. Munteanu, M. Marcu, L. E. Barbulescu, C. Ciobota, E. M. Cojocaru, S. Tanasescu, A. Paraschiv, Microstructural and Thermoanalytical Characterization of Super Duplex Stainless Steel - UNS S32760-F55, Materials Today Communications, vol. 28, 2021, pp. 1-11.


Books

1- Welding of Metallic Materials: Methods, Metallurgy and Performance, F. Khoshnaw, 2022, Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-323-90552-7

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2- Corrosion Atlas Series Book Case Studies, F. Khoshnaw, Elsevier. 

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/corrosion-atlas-case-studies/khoshnaw/978-0-443-13228-5

https://www.elsevier.com/books/corrosion-atlas-case-studies/khoshnaw/978-0-323-85849-6    

Research interests/expertise

Welding Technology, Corrosion Engineering and Surface Protection, Powder Metallurgy, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics and Electronics Packaging

Areas of teaching

Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Design, Materials Engineering, Fracture Mechanics, Corrosion, Welding and Casting Technology

Qualifications

PhD (2010), Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK,

BSc (1986), MSc (1991) and PhD (1995) - University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.

Courses taught

MSc Module: Structural Integrity - Design against Failure

Materials Engineering

Mechanics of Materials

Design of Machine Elements

Corrosion Engineering and Surface Protection

Welding Technology

Honours and awards

Winning fully funded Chevening Scholarship to study Commercialization of Technology Course in London Business School, London, 2005.

Membership of external committees

 

Membership of professional associations and societies

CEng., MIET 2008

Forthcoming events

 

Externally funded research grants information

In May 2021, as a Co-I, won £25,000 from the Global Challenge Research Funding (GCRF) for funding our research proposal entitled: Realising Education’s Promise for Children Refugees from Syria: Assessment of Education Provision and Learning Environments in Iraq.

In May 2018, as PI, won a research grant funded by Belgian Research Funding Body "FNRS" at Mons University in Belgium. The research started in 2018/2019 for 2 months. The title of the research project is "Effect of Metallurgical Aspects during Welding Duplex Stainless Steel Alloys"

ORCID number

0000-0002-4467-1944

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