Title : Development of a new material with enhanced properties for transportation industry application
Abstract:
Materials used in transportation industry have significantly evolved in the last decades, to face the society development challenges. Braking systems are considered an essential component of a vehicle and a wide range of materials are used in the manufacturing process, such as cast iron, aluminium based alloys, or composites. To reduce the environmental impact, materials should comply with ‘safe – by – design’ principles, by having a reduced content of critical metals or energetical consumption, low cost, improved recyclability, and a reduced amount of pollutant emissions generated during operation. Currently, there is a need to develop new materials with enhanced proprieties, to contribute to the implementation of climate neutrality concept, by decreasing harmful emission and stimulate circularity.
Complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) are a new category of materials, with a different synthesis strategy and a near – equal equimolar concentration for each element, that possess superior properties compared with the conventionally used materials. To identify the most suitable complex concentrated alloys compositions for brake system applications, special simulation techniques are used. In this context, thermodynamic and kinetic criteria and analysed, using Metalmix program, followed by MatCalc simulations, that provide information regarding the internal structure of the new CCAs. The modelling instruments have a significant contribution in designing new materials with reduced environmental footprint and extended life cycle for the desired applications.
Keywords: complex concentrated alloys, modelling, environmental impact, transportation industry
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by research grants from the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS/CCCDI–UEFISCDI, project numbers: ERANET-M-COM?TRANS-1, within PNCDI III
Audience Take Away:
- The audience will learn how the complex concentrated alloys can replace the conventional alloys used in transportation industry;
- The modelling process importance is an important step in the optimisation process used in wide industrial domain area;
- The way we can reduce the environmental impact and the extended life cycle of final product;
- This research will provide a new perspective to reduce content of critical metals and energy consumption in order to enhancing the ecological integrity.
