Seminar - Michael Ferry - UNSW Light Alloy Research within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals

Wednesday 2 July 2008, 11.00 am - 12.00 noon
Civil Engineering Lecture Theatre 3

Michael Ferry¹, Kevin Laws¹, Bulent Gun¹, Julia Sokolova¹, Timothy Burgess¹, Karl Shamlaye¹, Zakaria Quadir^1,2, Kai Dick Lau¹, Martin Xu¹, Nora Mateescu¹, Lori Bassman^1,3, Julie Cairney<sup>4

1</sup>ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals & School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
²Electron Microscope Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
³Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont USA
⁴Electron Microscope Unit, Madsen Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Abstract:

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals was established by the Federal Government in 2005 and involves six major Australian Universities in conjunction with several Australian and International research organizations. The research within the Centre is both fundamental and applied and is concerned with the design of new light alloys and composites exhibiting unique combinations of properties. This presentation will outline some recent work carried out at UNSW on: (i) generation of 3-D microstructures and (ii) light alloy development. The first part of the seminar will outline the use a Dualbeam^TM platform as a high resolution milling device for generating 3-D crystallographic information of most kinds of crystalline material. Based on this work, several new ideas of microstructural evolution of metals during deformation and annealing will be discussed. The second part of the seminar will describe the design of multi-layered alloy hybrid composites with the potential for generating interesting new properties and the development of new classes of superplastic bulk metallic glasses suitable for microfabrication of components and devices.