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Advanced Engineering Materials 4∕2017

2017; Wiley; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/adem.201700108

1527-2648

Helmut Clemens, J. Eckert, Christian Mitterer, Clara Schuecker,

Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties

The present special issue of Advanced Engineering Materials gives an overview on the materials science and engineering activities at the Montanuniversität Leoben. The Montanuniversität Leoben was founded in the year 1840 and covers all areas related to mining, metallurgy and materials. For decades, the Montanuniversität is known as an internationally recognized center of excellence for materials science and engineering. Materials-related study programs in Leoben include materials science, metallurgy, polymer engineering, and mechanical engineering, with more than 1500 students. In both education and research, all material classes are covered, i.e., metals and their alloys, intermetallics, composites, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, as well as nanostructured or ultrafine-grained structural and functional materials, including both experiments and modelling. About 21 chairs work on materials science and engineering related topics, with a total permanent staff of about 35 professors, about 40 research scientists and postdocs as well as around 70 Ph.D. students. The mission of the materials science and engineering activities at the Montanuniversität is application-oriented basic research. The research spans all the way from atomic via nano-, micro- and meso-scale structure, property and functionality investigations, to industrially relevant components, thus truly bridging all length scales through synergistically combining expertise from materials science, physics, chemistry, metallurgy and mechanical engineering. Examples of recent research work included in this special issue cover plasticity and deformation mechanisms on the nano-to-micro scale, supersaturation in ultrafine-grained immiscible systems, high performance steels, high-temperature alloys and intermetallics, functional electro-ceramics, hierarchically architected structural and functional materials, thin films for nanostructured flexible electronics, networked photopolymers and polypropylene implants, as well as additive manufacturing of metallic alloys, atomistic-modelling-based materials design and materials characterization through advanced high spatial resolution techniques. A large number of co-operations exist with numerous universities and research institutes worldwide. Members of the Montanuniversität are also engaged in the organization and collaboration of international conferences, for example various DGM, FEMS, PPS, TMS and MRS Symposia, the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, the International Conference on Metallography or the International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials. The Montanuniversität has a long and strong tradition of collaborating with industrial partners from Austria and around the world. As the main shareholder, the university runs two non-profit research institutions, the Materials Center Leoben and the Polymer Competence Center Leoben, both dealing with applied materials research and representing a bridge between the Montanuniversität and industry. Associated to the Montanuniversität, there are several non-university materials-related institutions, i.e., the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Foundry Research Institute, and the Laser Center Leoben of Joanneum Research. Presently, seven Christian Doppler Laboratories are installed at the Montanuniversität, dealing with industry- and government-supported application-oriented basic research. All of them of them are related to materials science and engineering focussing for example on hard coatings, plasticity and fracture, materials modelling and simulation, continuous casting, secondary metallurgy of nonferrous metals, design and life-time prediction of components as well as polymer chemistry and composites. Presently, materials research at the Montanuniversität is taking another important step into the future. After setting up two new buildings for materials and polymer science and the instalment of advanced atomic-scale resolution characterization facilities, further upgraded synthesis and characterization techniques will be set up to meet the ever increasing demands for advanced materials preparation and structure as well as property analysis and optimization. This will allow materials science and engineering at the Montanuniversität Leoben to cope with the scientific and engineering challenges related to development and application of advanced materials and their processing, especially for innovative topics like nanotechnology or micro- and nano-electronics, which will further extend its international reputation, giving a clear signal for the “Leoben Spirit”. Helmut Clemens Jürgen Eckert Christian Mitterer Clara Schuecker Christian Mitterer, Helmut Clemens, Clara Schuecker, Jürgen Eckert (left to right)