Prof Christopher Hutchinson, from Monash University, delivered a talk at the 2020 Alloy Design Workshop hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 4th December 2020. The workshop had an impressive line-up, including: Prof Hugo Sandim (University of Sao Paulo), Prof Zhaoping Lu (University of Science and Technology Beijing), Prof Gregory Olson (MIT), Prof John Ă…gren (KTH), Prof Francisca Caballero (Spanish National Research Council), Prof Davesh Misra (University of Texas at El Paso), Prof John Speer (Colorado School of Mines), Prof Cem Tasan (MIT) and Prof Christopher Hutchinson (Monash University).
Prof Hutchinson’s talk, entitled Damage resistant microstructures generated from chemically patterned austenite was very well received by the international audience and led to some rich discussions in the Q&A session that followed. The workshop covered the most recent ideas to push the limits of metastability-engineering towards steels with superior damage resistance, and it was a great opportunity to showcase the excellent work conducted by Monash and mineAlloy researchers.