Projects
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| Reference Number | EP/M021874/1 | |
| Title | Planar fault energies to order | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Transport) 25%; Not Energy Related 50%; Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion) 25%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Dr A Mottura No email address given Metallurgy and Materials University of Birmingham |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 June 2015 | |
| End Date | 31 May 2016 | |
| Duration | 12 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £95,271 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Aerospace; Defence and Marine | |
| Region | West Midlands | |
| Programme | NC : Engineering | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr A Mottura , Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham (100.000%) |
| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , University of Oxford (0.000%) Project Contact , University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | Stronger and more resistant alloys are required in order to increase the performace and efficiency of jet engines and gas turbines. As our ability to control alloy properties and microstructure increases, greater attention is drawn to designing new alloys that outperform the current state-of-the-art. In order to design the alloys of the future, the research community will have to undergo a step change, and think of advanced alloys as composite materials that include individual phases with remarkably different properties. The morphology, size and distribution of phases, together with their individual properties, work in unison to provide superior performance. For example, the superalloys of the future will need to display specific desirable dislocation behaviours that lead to higher strength and better high-temperature properties. This can be achieved by planar faults engineering: a finer control of planar fault energies and deformation mechanisms by fine tuning the chemistry of individual phases. This project has two aims. The first aim is to understand how wider compositional changes and temperature affect all planar fault energies in ordered intermetallic compounds, using the L12 phase as a case study. The second aim is to develop a framework for designing the composition of new alloys considering also desired planar fault energies as an input parameter | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 15/07/15 | |
