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Bruker UMT training

Researchers from Deakin University attended a 3-day training on the new Bruker UMT tribometer. The new instrument is a very flexible platform to assess the mechanical and tribological properties of materials. Moreover, the programming capability will allow researchers to run multiple tests on one sample or on multiple samples, which makes this inst...

Researchers wanted

The mineAlloy team at Deakin University has recently advertised four research positions: • Research Engineer, Wear – (Deakin job 180738, Seek, LinkedIn) • Research Fellow or Associate Research Fellow, Mechanics of Wear - (Deakin job 180727, Seek, LinkedIn) • Research Fellow or Associate Research Fellow, Computational Plasticity - (...

IMARC 2018

mineAlloy took part in IMARC 2018, sharing a booth with Gekko Systems. The event was a great success, with record number of attendees and a growing expo of equipment and mining technology. The speakers covered a wide range of topics and offered a good overview of the state-of-the-art to mining professionals....

Sent to press… in 3D

Direct Laser Deposition (DLD) is an emerging additive manufacturing technique, and one of the research projects in the mineAlloy centre explores the use of DLD to apply wear resistant coatings and to repair broken tools. Sit Chunkit recently started his Masters at Monash University, working on the optimisation of the DLD processing parameters to co...

2nd mineAlloy annual meeting

The mineAlloy students and researchers’ retreat was held at the Deakin Waurn Ponds campus on 6th September 2018, followed by the second mineAlloy annual meeting on Friday 7th September. The retreat included a presentation on Communication skills for industry engagement, delivered by Prof David Halliwell (Deakin University), and a workshop on W...

Visit to Cape Lambert operations

A mineAlloy delegation visited the Rio Tinto operations at Cape Lambert, in WA. The focus of the visit was on wear resistant materials (ground engaging tools, wear plates, crusher components) with the ultimate goal of extending the service life of key assets across the operations. The insights will be used to inform the research programs of the min...

New postdoctoral fellow to work on alloy design

Jerome Cornu recently joined the mineAlloy team at Deakin University. Jerome graduated in Materials Science at the National Polytechnic Institute of Physics, Electronics and Materials (INP Phelma) in Grenoble, France. He subsequently obtained his Master’s degree in the field of Nuclear Energy at the CEA institute in France, studying the interacti...

Material wear map for ground-engaging steels based on scratch tests

A recent paper published by mineAlloy researchers examines the scratch resistance of a series of candidate ground-engaging steels, with different microstructures: tempered martensite, nano-bainite, pearlite, and austenite. The researchers created wear grooves using tungsten carbide and diamond sliders and determined the material loss. A simple anal...

Monash welcomes first mineAlloy student

Ms Xiaohan Weng received her Bachelor of Material Engineering (Honours) degree in 2017, from the Department of Material Engineering Central South University, China, and Monash University, Australia. She recently started her PhD at Monash University and her research project is focused on the microstructure design of steels for improved wear resistan...

Md Shamsul Arefin joins the team working on wear sensors

Md Shamsul Arefin received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2007. He subsequently completed a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, in 2010, and a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering at ...

Arul Mozhi Varman joins UQ for PhD in High Manganese Steel

Arul Mozhi Varman J P did his Master's degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. His dissertation was dedicated to Plasma Nitriding of low alloy steel to enhance the fatigue performance. Arul subsequently worked on improving the rolling contact fatigue of bearing steels in a project funded by th...

UQ appoints research fellow in wear-resistant materials

Dr Yahia Ali received his PhD in Materials Engineering in 2017, at the University of Queensland. His research work was focused on grain refinement of cast alloys, and was conducted under the supervision of Prof Mingxing Zhang. During his studies, Yahia gained extensive experience in metal casting, solidification and grain refinement. In December 20...