New Approaches to Understanding Grain Boundary Chemistry. This project will provide a fundamentally better understanding of the relationship between grain boundary segregation and the recrystallisation behaviour of steel and Al alloys. This knowledge will lead to more efficient thermomechanical processing techniques, which will be of benefit to Australia's steel and light alloy industries. The experimental techniques to be developed will be the first of their kind. They have enormous potential f ....New Approaches to Understanding Grain Boundary Chemistry. This project will provide a fundamentally better understanding of the relationship between grain boundary segregation and the recrystallisation behaviour of steel and Al alloys. This knowledge will lead to more efficient thermomechanical processing techniques, which will be of benefit to Australia's steel and light alloy industries. The experimental techniques to be developed will be the first of their kind. They have enormous potential for use in future segregation studies of other alloy systems and are expected to make a major contribution to fundamental and applied research over the next few years.Read moreRead less
The development of optimum microstructures in hot worked metals. Hot working is used to obtain the shape and properties of a wide range of metal products. At present our knowledge of how to control the forming process and properties of the final product is limited to laboratory conditions that do not apply in industry. This work will systematically study the deformation behaviour of a range of metals, including steel, titanium, aluminium, magnesium and copper from standard laboratory to real i ....The development of optimum microstructures in hot worked metals. Hot working is used to obtain the shape and properties of a wide range of metal products. At present our knowledge of how to control the forming process and properties of the final product is limited to laboratory conditions that do not apply in industry. This work will systematically study the deformation behaviour of a range of metals, including steel, titanium, aluminium, magnesium and copper from standard laboratory to real industrial conditions. We will develop advanced models to predict the properties of these metals for any hot working process and identify opportunities to develop new high strength products.Read moreRead less
Competitive nucleation and growth during rapid solidification of steel. This research will assist in maintaining Australia at the forefront of research into strip casting of steel. Fundamental understanding and new modelling capabilities will help to promote the take-up of this energy/emission/cost efficient revolutionary process. It will furthermore provide, through the development of a novel experimental technique, new research capabilities for Australian researchers in other fields such as ra ....Competitive nucleation and growth during rapid solidification of steel. This research will assist in maintaining Australia at the forefront of research into strip casting of steel. Fundamental understanding and new modelling capabilities will help to promote the take-up of this energy/emission/cost efficient revolutionary process. It will furthermore provide, through the development of a novel experimental technique, new research capabilities for Australian researchers in other fields such as rapid solidification of advanced materials, e.g. hard magnets and thermoelectric alloys.Read moreRead less
Design of Improved Shape Memory Steels by Control of Parent Phase Precipitation Strengthening and Stacking Fault Energy. The aim is to develop iron-based precipitation strengthened shape memory alloys that are capable of recoverable strains > 4% and stresses > 200 MPa, for application as low cost one-way memory devices. Innovative solid solution and precipitation strengthening strategies will be employed to modify dislocation behaviour and stacking fault energy and to improve the reversibility o ....Design of Improved Shape Memory Steels by Control of Parent Phase Precipitation Strengthening and Stacking Fault Energy. The aim is to develop iron-based precipitation strengthened shape memory alloys that are capable of recoverable strains > 4% and stresses > 200 MPa, for application as low cost one-way memory devices. Innovative solid solution and precipitation strengthening strategies will be employed to modify dislocation behaviour and stacking fault energy and to improve the reversibility of the martensitic transformation - the key to shape memory behaviour. The interaction of transformation dislocations with strain fields due to coherent particles and solute atoms will be elucidated. Significant increases in shape recovery stress and strain are expected because of increased alloy resistance to irreversible plastic strain.Read moreRead less