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Alban is awarded a DECRA, congratulations!

Congrats to Dr. Alban de Vaucorbeil! Alban has been awarded the prestigious DECRA fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Truly an honour and appreciation of his contribution to the field of numerical modelling of material behaviour. More details can be found on the ARC website: Selection Report: Discovery Early Career Researcher ...

2022 National ITRP Symposium (Brisbane)

The very first Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) Symposium for Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research took place on the 12th-13th September 2022 in Brisbane. Business managers of the ARC funded training centres and research hubs across Australia were present. Moreover, delegates from the ARC joined in person and online. D...

State-of-the-art wear simulations

Dr. Alban de Vaucorbeil is specialised in the development of analytical and numerical models for the simulation of materials and structures. Within the mineAlloy centre, his expertise contributes to the understanding of the relationship between the material parameters and wear. The anticipated outcome of Alban’s work is the understanding of the o...

Meet the researcher: Dr Charline Le Nue

My research is focused on understanding the relationship between microstructure, properties (hardness, toughness) and wear resistance of materials for mining applications, as well as the development of new alloys and/or modification of currently available grades for mining applications. Employing various characterisation technics, alloy design pri...

mineAlloy researchers present at CAMS2022 (Melbourne)

mineAlloy researchers presented their latest results at the CAMS2022 conference in Melbourne. CAMS is Australia’s largest interdisciplinary technical meeting and focused on the latest advances in materials science, engineering and technology. The presentation were given by Charline Le Nue with the title "Rapid discovery of low-density and wear-re...

Macro-scale composites for maximum wear resistance under abrasion

mineAlloy researchers (Daniel Grasser, Santiago Corujeira Gallo, Michael Pereira, Matthew Barnett) at Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) published an article in Wear (494-495, April 2022). The full article is available by clicking on the image above and at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2022.204277. The experimental stu...

Developing materials with exceptional abrasion resistance

NiHard-4 and high-Cr-Mo white cast irons are extensively used in mining and mineral processing applications. The microstructure and mechanical properties of these abrasion resistant materials are highly sensitive to the chemical composition and heat treatment conditions. A mineAlloy team led by researchers at University of Queensland (Maziar Jokari...

Improving the microstructure and properties of high chromium cast iron

mineAlloy researchers at University of Queensland have recently published an article on the Effect of TiB2 additions on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a hypereutectic high chromium cast iron. The research team used TiB2 to reduce the average size and aspect ratio of primary carbides with the ultimate goal of improving the mechanica...

Writing papers with impact

Prof Peter Hodgson delivered a workshop on “Writing papers with impact” to mineAlloy students and researchers. The workshop took place at Deakin Waurn Ponds campus and several researchers connected remotely over Zoom. The presentation covered all aspects of scientific publications, from identifying a suitable journal and audience, to writing a ...

Weir – UQ: visit and internships

A delegation from Weir Minerals visited University of Queensland earlier this year to discuss the progress of their mineAlloy projects. The projects are dedicated to high chromium white cast irons and high manganese Hadfield steels and researchers at UQ have recently made a couple of breakthroughs, which resulted in the filing of two provisional pa...

MIT 2020 Alloy Design Workshop

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 G...

mineAlloy annual meeting 2020

The mineAlloy training centre held its annual meeting on 24th November 2020 in a rather unusual setting. Given the travel restrictions and the social distancing rules in effect at the time of the meeting, the attendees connected remotely, from their home office or from geographically dispersed meeting rooms, through a videoconferencing platform. ...