CAMM Partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Design in Light Metals at Monash University, Australia

From the CoE’s web-site (http://www.arclightmetals.org.au/), the activities of the centre may be described by the following. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals co-ordinates internationally-competitive national research strengths to establish a strategic fundamental research platform for expansion of the light metals industry nationally. It embraces a novel ‘design-directed’ approach to the systematic identification of strategic research initiatives that will maximise the competitiveness of light alloys and light metal hybrid materials based on aluminium, magnesium and titanium.
The Centre addresses strategic design targets identified in light metal applications through:
• Novel approaches to the design and processing of conventional light alloys to modify existing property profiles, including production of existing properties more economically, and
• Innovative approaches to design with and applications of light metal systems to create novel property profiles that expand applications of the light metals.
The ‘design-directed’ approach provides an effective linkage between fundamental research and engineering applications. Coupled with a focus on genuine innovation in materials design and advances in downstream processing, it ensures that the Centre fills a critical void in the national light metals research strategy and provides a vital link between research and industry sectors.

CAMM’s interaction with the CoE involves Ti alloys, specifically those that may be tolerant to impurity content. More to follow.