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Success story : Dr. Daniel Grasser

AT A GLANCE Name: Dr Daniel Grasser Area of expertise: Discrete Element Modelling (DEM), bulk material handling, and reduction of wear during mining operations Current affiliation: TUNRA Bulk Solids Project : Optimising bulk particle flow of iron ore inside a chute using Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) and experimental calibration. ...

Destabilization Treatment and Its Influence on Microstructure and Matrix Hardness of High-Cr Cast Iron

mineAlloy researchers and collaborators recently published their work on the influence of destabilization treatment on the microstructure and hardness of High-chromium cast iron (Metall Mater Trans A (2023), 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-023-07216-4). This study examines the microstructural evolution during destabilization treatment of a...

Visiting research student: exploring grinding media wear in a ball mill

Desire Emefa Awuye is a new visiting research student at mineAlloy. This research is part of her PhD in Minerals Engineering at the University of Mines and Technology, Ghana. For the upcoming 6 months, her research focuses on grinding media wear simulations and heat treatment of grinding media to improve the wear resistance. In detail, she is inves...

PhD fellowships: Australia-France Network of Doctoral Excellence (AUFRANDE Program)

mineAlloy takes part in the Australia-France Network of Doctoral Excellence (AUFRANDE Program). AUFRANDE is offering 35 PhD fellowships in the fields of Physics, Computer Sciences, Geosciences, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Mechanics, Acoustics, Chemistry, Photonics and other related-disciplines. Successful applicants are expected to s...

Mining Magazine: DEM case study published

Check out Daniel's article on pages 24-25 in the Autumn edition of the Mining Magazine (https://miningmagazine.com.au/). Here is the direct link to the issue: https://issuu.com/monkeymediamagazines/docs/mining_autumn_2023_web/26 The article is about a case study showing design principles for better chute wear liners using Discrete Element Modell...

Congratulations Alban to co-authorship of book (Material Point Method (MPM))

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a new computational tool that allows the simulation of solids, fluids and structures subjected to large deformation. This particle based method has shown high potential in the simulation of Wear such as abrasion and impact, Machining and Additive Manufacturing. The mineAlloy centre is delighted to announce the pub...

PhD student Roshan completed industry placement

Roshan completed his industry placement with Bradken Pty Ltd in December 2022. He worked at their manufacturing plant in Bassendean, West Australia. The placement focused on industrial scale manufacturing of experimental wear resistant high-chromium weld overlays that were developed as a part of Roshan’s PhD project. During the placement, Roshan ...

Mining equipment wear: designing better liners with DEM simulation

Mineral mining can cause significant wear on equipment such as liners. Learn more about a Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) study by mineAlloy to improve wear resistance, design better liners, and reduce physical testing requirements. The main focus was the optimum design of wear resistant composites for chute liners based on the geometrical relatio...

International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Sydney

The International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) is Australia's largest mining event. This year's IMARC hosted an expo of the biggest mining companies and conference talks in Sydney (2-4 November 2022). Hot topics were technology, finance and trends towards a sustainable future. Daniel attended IMARC and was invited as part of the Next Gen...

Modelling of impeller-tumbler wear test with discrete element method

mineAlloy researchers (Vadim Zolotarevskiy, Santiago Corujeira Gallo, Michael Pereira, Matthew Barnett) recently published their work on the impeller-tumbler wear test (Modelling of impeller-tumbler wear test with discrete element method, Wear, Volumes 510–511, 204509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2022.204509). Discrete element modelling (DE...

Workshop for Early Career Researchers

mineAlloy researchers and PhD students attended a workshop for early career researchers. The workshop was organised by Deakin University's Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) and held at the Waurn Ponds Estate. The program included highlights such as publishing in high impact journals (provided by a senior editor of Nature), presentation and ...

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