Escuela de Verano & Jornada Industrial: impresión 3D de metales

Los días 23 y 24 de julio, el Instituto IMDEA Materiales organiza una escuela de verano y una jornada industrial sobre impresión 3D de metales donde empresas destacadas del sector (Siemens, ITP, Renishaw, HP, LPW Technologies, Mizar Additive) discutirán los principales avances y retos a los que se enfrentan. Este evento está abierto a graduados en ciencias e ingeniería, investigadores y profesionales interesados en conocer mejor tanto los fundamentos básicos de la impresión 3D de metales como el estado de…

Seminar Marta Serrano: Structural materials for Gen IV reactors

Marta Serrano García (CIEMAT) The next evolution for commercial nuclear reactors include the design of fast nuclear reactors as a sustainable nuclear energy production system. The operating conditions for this Gen IV reactors are much more aggressive than the ones for operating light water reactors, in terms of neutron dose, temperature and coolants, that rise the need to explore new structural materials able to sustain this conditions. In this talk, a review of the potential degradation mechanisms and related design…

Seminar Dr. Isaac Toda-Caraballo: An overview on the designing High Entropy Alloys

Dr. Isaac Toda-Caraballo: Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. University of Cambridge (UK) Within the last two decades, a new type of material has been increasingly explored. Widely known as High Entropy Alloys (HEAs), they contrast with most of the existing metallic materials in which they do not contain a major element, such as steels, aluminium alloys or magnesium alloys. Their original definition assumes 5 or more different elements, with composition between 5% and 35% of atomic content, displaying a…

Seminar Dr. Alexander Zhilyaev: Bulk nanostructured materials processed by severe plastic deformation: from fundamentals towards applications

Dr. Alexander Zhilyaev: Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic (Spain) and Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems of Russian Academy of Science (Russia) In recent years, the development of bulk nanostructured materials (BNM) has become one of the most fascinating directions in modern materials science. One method of nanostructuring is the “top-down” approach which is based on grain refinement through heavy straining or shock wave loading. During the last two decades, grain refinement by severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques has attracted special interest…

Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials

The last 28th and 29th of June IMDEA Materials Institute hosted the first Summer School on Advanced Processing of Metallic Materials. This event was organized under the auspices of the DIMMAT-Project for 2016 (dissemination and training programme). This course was offered for undergraduates and graduates in sciences and engineering, and also for industry professionals in advanced materials. Lectures were carried out by distinguished scientists, technologists and industry practitioners participating in the DIMMAT consortium as well as in other technological centers…