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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...

Roshan starts project on high entropy alloys

Roshan Sasi recently joined the mineAlloy team at IFM, Deakin University, as a PhD student. His project focuses on developing wear resistant composites with a High Entropy Alloy matrix through laser additive manufacturing. The project will also explore the possibility of using additive manufacturing to fabricate carbide-reinforced composites with a...

Maziar starts MPhil on wear resistant white cast irons

Maziar Jokari recently joined the mineAlloy team as MPhil student at the University of Queensland, working on the development of new grades of white cast iron for application in ore chute liners. Maziar’s expertise in materials engineering and tribology are a good match for the alloy development and evaluation program, led by Dr Jeff Gates and co...

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...