Warm congratulations to our first year AUSMURI PhD student Maxwell Moyle for bringing home the 2020 ‘Best 1MT in the School of Materials Science and Engineering award’. Decent science communication skills are required in order to successfully outline the aim and impact of a PhD project to a broader audience. This is especially challenging if […]
We have been lucky to be awarded another grant in the Australian Research Council Linkage 2019 round. This project is led by Sophie at UNSW and aims to design a new thermo-mechanical process for manufacturing aero-engine disks with superior mechanical properties. This is based on our previous research in direct industry collaborations around multi-scale characterisation […]
Congrats to our 2019 Honour’s student Liam Stephenson for winning the university medal, one of the most distinguished awards based on an outstanding academic performance. Liam did his Honour’s project with us studying variant selection mechanisms in 3D printed Ti-6-4, in the framework of the AUSMURI project. Thanks also to Nima and Ryan who did […]
We have recently been lucky to secure more funding from the ARC Linkage scheme. The aim of this project is to better understand the origins of the properties of tungsten-carbide cobalt based (WC-Co) hard metals and how these may be tuned via alloying and processing. The team of researchers from The University of Sydney and […]
This is how we are staying in touch with each other in Covid-19 times: Group meetings, teaching and discussions with students have been moved to MicrosoftTeams, virtual group coffee is done in Zoom. The awesome tile format of the latter product enables us to capture some interesting group photos. You can immediately spot who is […]
Felix, Ryan and Sophie attended TMS 2020 in sunny San Diego, California. Sophie organised a symposium on ordered precipitates in a FCC matrix and chaired the corresponding superalloy session. Felix gave his first invited talk summarising his recent results on Alloy 718, recently published in his second paper in Acta Materialia. Ryan presented results from […]
The lastest (re-)addition to our group is our former honours student Wilson (on the right, with team alloy R41). He will pursue a masters by research, completing our team alloy R41, advancing Australian specialty alloy manufacturing. (No pressure…). Welcome back, Wilson.
Nima gave a talk at the 26th Australian conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis (2020 Visions in Microscopy) in Canberra. Nima spoke about how correlative microscopy is needed to understand the microstructure and properties of additively manufactured alloys. It was a great opportunity to learn about the latest microscopy research in Australia across different deciplines. It […]
Prof. Ernst Kozeschnik (TU Vienna) has come back for a couple of rainy but productive days to work with Sophie’s students on various projects involving MatCalc. We are looking forward to future publications on recrystallisation modelling in Ni-based superalloys and more. The feature image is from a lovely dinner at the UNSW lounge with old […]
Arnab spent a couple of days at the IFM Deakin University in Geelong to do quench dilatometry of two modern HSLA steels he has cooked. Many thanks to Drs Thomas Dorin and Alireza Vahid for looking after him so magnificently. Arnab too enjoyed a weekend exploring the Melbourne foodie culture. He will be back.
