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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...

Haiwei joins the mineAlloy team in Queensland

Dr Haiwei (Jeffrey) Chang is a research fellow at the University of Queensland working on the development of bainitic steels. His research expertise lies in new steel development for wear resistance and additive manufacturing, surface modification of light alloys (Al, Mg, Ti) through cold spray coating and packed powder diffusion, surface nanocryst...

Daniel starts his PhD on wear detection

Daniel Grasser received his Master’s degree in mechanical engineering in Germany, 2016. During his studies he conducted industrial internships (e.g. Linde Material Handling Corp., Ltd. in Xiamen, China) and was involved in several industrial research projects. For 12 months, he worked on the project “Influence of compressive and tensile surface...

mineAlloy official opening

The Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, and ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Sue Thomas, visited Deakin University on 8th November for the official launch of the mineAlloy training centre. “It is a real thrill to be here today. So much of this University is about impact – here in Geelong, across Vict...

Post-doctoral Research Engineer to work on abrasion resistant materials

The Wear-Resistant Materials group within the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering at University of Queensland is seeking a Post-doctoral Research Engineer to join a project team researching abrasion-resistant materials for ore chute liners. The Research Engineer will contribute to two projects; “A new generation of ‘NiHard’ alloys for...

PhD Research Scholarships: applications open

The University of Queensland is now recruiting three PhD students for projects associated with the mineAlloy Centre. The topics of research cover: Control of carbide morphology in high chromium cast irons and high manganese steels Control of carbide morphology in cast high manganese steels Development of new generation high carbon bainit...