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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.
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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
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New high temperature resistant material for building hot-stamping rolling beam furnaces
The ROLLING BEAM furnace combines horizontal and vertical movements of
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Rethinking sustainability of metallic alloys
Advanced metallic materials are complex materials with very different compositions.
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Development of New Hybrid Composites for High-Temperature Applications
Nowadays, in the automation and aircraft industries, there is a
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TREAT- Optimization of Heat Treatments (methodology)
Sustainable manufacturing processes TREAT Efficient Heat Treatments Methodology for the
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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
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HTSTEELS – Super-refractory stainless steels
New Material HTSteels New family of super-refractory stainless steels Patented
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SUMA- Superior Materials (methodology)
New Materials SUMA Superior Materials Methodology for the development of
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Bottom gas extraction system for manufacturing steel cast components with reduced inclusion content
A gas extraction system for extracting gas generated when casting
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High Performance Materials for extreme Energy Intensive Industry Process Environments
Modified cast austenitic alloys have been designed to enhance the
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Influence of the Chemical Composition on the Solidification Path, Strengthening Mechanisms and Hardness of Ni-Cr-Si-Fe-B Self-Fluxing Alloys Obtained by Laser-Directed Energy Deposition
Nickel-based Ni-Cr-Si-B self-fluxing alloys are excellent candidates to replace cobalt-based
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Embedded conductors in solidified molten metal for winding packs for high-field stellarators
The potential advantages of high-field stellarators are currently being recognised,