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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...

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...