News – mineAlloy

Distinguished visitor at Monash: Prof Yves Brechet

Prof Yves Brechet, member of the French Academy of Sciences, visited Monash University for a few weeks as part of a growing international collaboration with Prof Chris Hutchinson. Yves’ research interests span the fields of physical metallurgy, thermodynamics, microstructures, phase transformations, plasticity, fracture micromechanics, material s...

Bradken joins the mineAlloy training centre

Bradken Pty Ltd has joined the mineAlloy training centre as a new industrial partner. Bradken specialise in wear solutions for mining equipment, including GET, crawler systems, mill liners, crusher liners, wear monitoring systems and service support. The research projects will cover a wide range of exciting topics, including: optimisation of alloy...

UQ researchers attend trial at Weir

A team of researchers from University of Queensland attended an industrial trial at Weir Minerals’ facilities in Artarmon. The trial aimed to validate some of the findings made by UQ’s researchers on white cast irons and to upscale the methods. The team also took the opportunity to review the progress and plan the next steps of their research p...

Kabir starts postdoctoral research fellowship on Mechanics of Wear

Mohammad Sharear Kabir has recently joined the mineAlloy team at Deakin University as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mechanics of Wear. Kabir obtained his bachelor’s degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After his graduation, he worked as a Research Assistant in proj...

Heat treatment trial at Keech

Researchers from Deakin University and Keech Castings conducted a heat treatment trial, which involved instrumenting steel blocks and ground engaging tools with thermocouples, and collecting data throughout the heat treatment cycle. The trial provided valuable information to validate Computational Fluid Dynamic models and will help researchers to d...

Ali joins the research team at Deakin

Alireza Vahid recently joined the mineAlloy centre at Deakin University as research engineer. Alireza graduated in Materials Science and Engineering and was involved in several industrial projects over the subsequent eight years. He received his PhD from IFM-Deakin University in 2016, conducting research on the mechanical properties of biocompatibl...

New postdoctoral research fellow at Deakin

Charline Le Nue has recently joined the mineAlloy team at Deakin University as postdoctoral research fellow. Charline graduated in Chemistry at The National Superior School of Chemistry (ENSCCF) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. She subsequently obtained her Master’s degree in the field of Metallic Materials, working on the development and the charact...

mineAlloy student completes industry placement

Daniel Grasser is in the final stage of his two-month placement at Gekko Systems in Ballarat, Victoria. Daniel used Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations to understand particle flows inside mining equipment and to detect hot spots for wear. The work was divided into two stages: The first stage was dedicated to setting up the DEM model and to...

Abhishek joins the mineAlloy team at UQ

Abhishek Jain started his PhD at the University of Queensland in April 2019. He will be working on controlling the carbide morphology in high chromium white cast irons under the supervision of Prof Mingxing Zhang. Abhishek obtained his bachelor’s degree in Material Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and he su...

Monash uses SPH to model wear mechanisms

Alban de Vaucorbeil, a mineAlloy researcher from Monash University, has delivered a talk at IFM. In his presentation, Alban explained the results he obtained using a mesh-less method called Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate the wear response of materials. Using this technique, he investigated the change in wear resistance and wear mec...

Deakin researchers visit Keech Castings

A group of researchers from Deakin University travelled to Bendigo to observe the casting of a set of test components for an industrial trial. The components and the test pieces will be subjected to extensive tests to optimise the heat treatment, the microstructure and the resulting mechanical properties, combining wear resistance with good fractur...

UQ researchers visit IXL

Researchers from University of Queensland visited IXL Metal Castings to discuss casting and heat treatment practices. The researchers are completing a set of experiments on wear resistant white cast irons and Maziar Jokari, who is currently conducting his Masters at University of Queensland, will be seconded to IXL later this year as part of his tr...