News – mineAlloy

Pioneering friction stir additive manufacturing of steels

Dr Ehsan Farabi has recently joined the mineAlloy team at Deakin University. Ehsan is a physical metallurgist with interest in developing processing-structure-property links for advanced structural materials, mainly steels and titanium alloys. He has expertise in state-of-the-art characterisation techniques, such as electron microscopy (SEM), elect...

Chun Kit completes project on direct laser deposition of WC/Co

Chun Kit Sit has submitted his Master’s thesis on Direct Laser Deposition (DLD) of WC/Co cermets as wear-resistant coatings. WC/Co cermets are composite materials composed of tungsten carbide (ceramic) in a cobalt binder (metallic). WC/Co cermets are especially hard and wear resistant but their traditional manufacturing processes are expensive. ...

Refinement of primary carbides in hypereutectic high-chromium cast irons

mineAlloy researchers from University of Queensland and Weir Minerals have recently published a review paper on the refinement of primary carbides in hypereutectic high-chromium cast irons. High-chromium cast irons (HCCIs) are widely used in mining, minerals and cementation industries. The large volume fraction of coarse primary carbides (M7C3) imp...

Postdoc in Advanced Characterisation

Dr Jiangting Wang is a research fellow and FIB-SEM manager at the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University. He is specialised in advanced material characterisation, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), focused-ion beam (FIB), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and atom probe tomograp...

Running DEM simulations at the National Computational Infrastructure

The researchers of mineAlloy, Vadim Zolotarevskiy and Michael Pereira, have been recently granted with access to the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). The NCI facility operates Gadi - the most powerful Australian supercomputer. Gadi, that was launched in the beginning of 2020 and already ranked as 24th in the TOP500 list of the global su...

Design, modelling and characterisation of wear-resistant steels

Yuxiang Wu is currently a research fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University. His work involves quantitative studies of microstructure development with both experimental and modelling components. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Monash University in 2019. In the mineAlloy trainin...

Confirmations and completion

Congratulations to George Galis for successfully completing his confirmation of candidature at University of Queensland earlier this month. In this way, George joins the cohort of mineAlloy students who completed their confirmation of candidature this year, including: Abhishek Jain at University of Queensland, and Vamshi Chennuri, Roshan Sasi and E...

Xin starts master’s at Deakin

Xin Zheng has started his Master of Engineering project with the mineAlloy team at Deakin University. The project will use DEM modelling to develop design principles for titanium carbide inserts embedded in the mantles of cone crushers. Xin recently completed his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) degree. His thesis was titled “Compu...

Rocky DEM workshop

LEAP Australia and ESSS delivered a workshop on Rocky DEM software to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the Institute for Frontier Materials and the School of Engineering at Deakin University. The presenters, Marcus Reis and Leon White, had originally planned to visit Waurn Ponds, but they had to deliver the workshop over ZOOM ...

PhD students wanted

The mineAlloy team at Deakin University is accepting expressions of interest from PhD candidates to join the mineAlloy training centre and related projects. The research topics gravitate around wear resistant materials, additive manufacturing and repair technologies, as well as advanced modelling and testing techniques. To find out more, please ...

Pushing the boundaries of modelling methods

Alban de Vaucorbeil recently published some of his work using the Material Point Method (MPM) to simulate engineering problems involving large displacements, large deformation and contacts. The article appeared in Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering earlier this year (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112783). This article fol...

Matt delivers workshop on deformation

Prof Matthew Barnett, from Deakin University, delivered a workshop on deformation of materials to an audience composed of students and researchers of the mineAlloy training centre and beyond. The deformation mechanisms of metallic materials have a significant effect on their mechanical properties and wear resistance. The workshop covered both funda...