News – mineAlloy

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...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…!

Nick Edghill has just started his PhD at Deakin University and is the first Australian student of the mineAlloy centre. In his project, Nick will exploit advanced manufacturing, testing and characterisation techniques to accelerate the development of wear resistant alloys. Nick completed his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) at Deakin...

Performance of white cast irons in ball mills

Researchers from University of Queensland have published an article on the performance of white cast irons in laboratory ball mills. In mineral grinding mills, media and liners are consumed by abrasion, corrosion, and fracture related damage mechanisms. White cast irons (carbide-reinforced composites) can provide substantially greater wear life tha...

Workshop on computational thermodynamics and kinetics

The mineAlloy training centre hosted a workshop on ThermoCalc/Dictra software for modelling computational thermodynamics and kinetics. These software packages are very useful tools to understand the effects of chemical composition and heat treatment on the microstructure and performance of different alloys, particularly steels and cast irons. Th...

Vamshi joins the mineAlloy team at Deakin

Vamshi Chennuri has recently joined the mineAlloy team at Deakin University as a PhD student. His research project will focus on the development of nano-bainitic wear-resistant steels for mining applications. Vamshi received his Master's degree in Materials Science and Simulation from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. His Master’s dissertati...