Dr Melissa Riley CEng FIMMM FWeldI
Consultant, Surface Engineering
Dr Melissa Riley is a Consultant within TWI’s Metallurgy, Corrosion and Surfacing team and has >25 years experience in surface engineering with 22 years of service at TWI. She has worked on a wide range of projects for TWI’s Industrial Members relating to the development and application of thermal spray coatings, and other coating technologies. Prior to joining TWI she worked on PVD and CVD coating technologies for orthopaedic applications.
Her work has included application and performance evaluation of wear and corrosion resistant coatings, ceramic coatings, bearing materials and more novel coatings and applications, including leading TWI’s work on the development of coatings on composites. Melissa has also led TWI’s thermal spraying and coating evaluation capability development over the last 15 years, including installation of thermal spraying systems, surface profilometry equipment, and erosion test facilities, along with the creation of a (£0.5M) large scale coating facility (LSF) which now houses TWI’s cold spraying systems and thermal spray coatings at scale. This is supported by robot offline programming capability to support upscaling and manufacturing development.
Melissa is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and Fellow of The Welding Institute. She also sits on the Management Committee for the UK Thermal Spraying and Surface Engineering Association (TSSEA), which issues the Code of Practice for Thermal Spraying, and also BSI STI/040 Thermal Spraying and Thermally Sprayed Coatings Committee.