
Fernando Santos
“Metallurgy offers a sea of opportunities to improve the performance and durability of components.”
Special Materials and Processes
The Special Materials and Processes team develops new materials, technologies and processes to improve the #durability of components by working to improve the properties linked to #thermal fatigue, #corrosion and #wear. #High entropy alloys, #superalloys and #special steels are some of its main lines of work.

An Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Twin Approach for Rejection Rate and Mechanical Property Improvement in an Investment Casting Plant
The manufacturing process carried out in the investment casting industry

Hydrogen permeation and diffusion in high strength steels
Hydrogen embrittlement in high-strength materials, such as structural steels and

Development of high performance materials and processes for applications under extreme energy conditions
The austenitic stainless steel AISI 310 (25Cr-20Ni) is commonly used

Effect of Powder Reuse on Powder Characteristics and Properties of DED Laser Beam Metal Additive Manufacturing Process with Stellite® 21 and UNS S32750
In this work, the influence of powder reuse up to

Failure analysis of an AISI 310 stainless steel beam reinforcement fracture during service in a rolling beam furnace
This work investigated the premature failure of a beam reinforcement

New high temperature resistant material for building hot-stamping rolling beam furnaces
The ROLLING BEAM furnace combines horizontal and vertical movements of

Rethinking sustainability of metallic alloys
Advanced metallic materials are complex materials with very different compositions.

Development of New Hybrid Composites for High-Temperature Applications
Nowadays, in the automation and aircraft industries, there is a

TREAT- Optimization of Heat Treatments (methodology)
Sustainable manufacturing processes TREAT Efficient Heat Treatments Methodology for the

Chemical Composition Effects on the Microstructure and Hot Hardness of NiCrSiFeB Self-Fluxing Alloys Manufactured via Gravity Casting
Ni-Cr-Si-Fe-B self-fluxing alloys are commonly used in hardfacing applications; in

HTSTEELS – Super-refractory stainless steels
New Material HTSteels New family of super-refractory stainless steels Patented

SUMA- Superior Materials (methodology)
New Materials SUMA Superior Materials Methodology for the development of