Metallic Melts & Joining

Metals are generally considered a “solid” materials, but several processes make use of metals at liquid state, during their production but also in many other applications, such as, welding, brazing (joining processes), casting, crystal growth, MMC fabrication by infiltration, liquid phase sintering, etc.

In ICMATE, in order to increase the performance and to optimize process fabrications, the behaviour of several metallic systems are studied at solid and liquid state for a wide range of applications, such as:

ACTIVITIES:

• Laser welding / laser cutting of metallic alloys: study of processability, microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour
• Soldering alloys
• Brazing alloys for dissimilar materials for improving joining process between ceramics and metals.
• Metal phases for enanching CMC joining and densification.
• Suitable mould materials for foundry industries.
• Multicomponent alloys and steels as structural materials.
• Coating based on metal systems
• Solidification processes for metallic glasses and high entropy alloys