Scientific areas
Bridging the gap between Academia, Research and Industry
Extractive Metallurgy
- Pyrometallurgy
- Hydrometallurgy
- Metallurgical thermodynamics
Recycling, energy and environment
Processing of metallic materials
- Metal forming (through mechanical deformation)
- Heat treatment
- Welding
- Surface treatment and coatings
Mechanical behavior of metallic materials
- Tensile behaviour
- Fatigue and Fracture behaviour
- Impact behaviour
- Creep behavior
- Stress corrosion cracking
Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys
- Conventional alloys
- Advanced alloys
- Composites with metal matrix or metallic phase reinforcement
- Intermetallics
- Nanostructured materials
- Metal glasses
- Metal foams
- Complex metallic alloys
- High entropy alloys
- Archaeological metals
Metallic and composite constructions
Corrosion and protection
- Electrochemical corrosion
- High temperature corrosion
- Corrosion forms
- Corrosion of engineering alloys
- Corrosion of biomedical alloys
- Corrosion of reinforced concrete
Protection measures
Tribology and wear
- Sliding wear
- Abrasive wear
- Friction
- Wear/corrosion
- Solid particle erosion
- Erosion-Corrosion
