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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...

Alban strengthens the mineAlloy team at Monash

Dr Alban de Vaucorbeil is a research fellow at Monash University working on the simulation of abrasive wear. He is both a mechanical and materials engineer whose expertise lies in simulations of structures and materials from atomistic to macroscopic scales submitted to both quasistatic and dynamic loadings. Alban has a bachelor’s degree in Mechan...

Shinning a bright light on wear resistant materials

Dr Justin Kimpton, who leads the powder diffraction beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, visited the mineAlloy group at Deakin University on 15th June. Justin delivered a talk on Real time experiments using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and subsequently discussed the opportunities for our students and industry partners to use synchrotron ...

Shuvo joins the mineAlloy team

Dr Subhankar Biswas joined the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) as an Associate Research Fellow in May 2017, and he will be working with Prof Matthew Barnett in the mineAlloy Training Centre. In his new role, Subhankar will undertake research in the area of metallurgy, producing, analysing and interpreting data obtained in relation to the wea...

Brimacombe Medal for Matt

Congratulations to Prof Matthew Barnett who has been awarded The MInerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Brimacombe Medal 2017. Prof Barnett received the award for substantial contributions to the advancement of the science and technology of alloy development and processing of metals and in particular of wrought magnesium alloys. “To...

mineAlloy welcomes first student

Océane Louppe recently obtained a Master’s degree in Materials and Structures for Aeronautics and Space, from the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France). She started her PhD at the Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, on 27th March 2017. “The aim of my study within the mineAlloy centre will be to improve wear life of...