Skip to main content
European Commission logo
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
CORDIS Web 30th anniversary CORDIS Web 30th anniversary
Content archived on 2024-06-18

Accelerated Metallurgy - the accelerated discovery of alloy formulations using combinatorial principles

Objective

"The core concept of Accelerated Metallurgy is to deliver an integrated pilot-scale facility for the combinatorial synthesis and testing of many thousands of unexplored alloy formulations. This facility would be the first of its kind in the world and would represent a significant advance for metallurgy. The novel technology that enables this HTT facility is based on automated, direct laser deposition (DLD). The key feature of this technology is the way in which a mixture of elemental powders is accurately and directly fed into the laser's focal point, heated by the laser beam, and deposited on a substrate in the form of a melt pool, which finally solidifies to create a unique fully-dense alloy button with precise stoichiometry. This robotic alloy synthesis is 1000 times faster than conventional manual methods. Once produced, these discrete mm-sized samples are submitted to a range of automated, standardised tests that will measure chemical, physical and mechanical properties. The vast amount of information will be recorded in a ""Virtual Alloy Library"" and coupled with computer codes such as neural network models, in order to extract and map out the key trends linking process, composition, structure and properties. The most promising alloy formulations will be further tested, patented and exploited by the 20 end-users. Industrial interests include: (i) new lightweight fuel-saving alloys (<4.5 g/cm3) for aerospace and automotive applications; (ii) new higher-temperature alloys (stable>1000°C) for rockets, gas turbines, jet-engines, nuclear fusion; (iii) new high-Tc superconductor alloys (>30K) that can be wire-drawn for electrical applications; (iv) new high-ZT thermoelectric alloys for converting waste heat directly into electricity; (v) new magnetic and magnetocaloric alloys for motors and refrigeration; and (vi) new phase-change alloys for high-density memory storage. The accelerated discovery of these alloy formulations will have a very high impact on society."

Fields of science

Programme(s)

Topic(s)

Call for proposal

FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4
See other projects for this call

Funding Scheme

CP-IP - Large-scale integrating project

Coordinator

STIFTELSEN SINTEF
EU contribution
€ 706 929,55
Address
STRINDVEIEN 4
7034 Trondheim
Norway

See on map
Region
Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag
Activity type
Research Organisations
Administrative Contact
Tove Lillian Hønstad (Ms.)
Links
Total cost
No data

Participants (33)

Share this page

Download

Last update: 16 February 2022

My Booklet

Permalink: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/263206

European Union, 2024