Invited Speaker

Abstract: High-throughput experimental technology has drastically transformed the landscape of material development by substantially reducing both the development time and associated costs. This is particularly evident in development of new materials for aeroengines. Creep behaviour is one of the key mechanical properties for performance of aeroengines, especially the blades. Tensile creep testing was the traditional method to evaluate creep behaviour, but this is both time-consuming and expensive. This study introduces a novel approach of a high throughput compression creep test, which facilitates simultaneous testing of eight samples, thus significantly reduces the time and cost compared to traditional methods. This novel testing method has been successfully employed for rapidly screening creep properties during development of new materials and offers the capability to screen roles of chemical composition for engineering materials. In addition, this study has also successfully utilized the compression creep data to establish a quantitative correlation with tensile creep data, leading to accurate predictions of stress rupture life very quickly. Thus, the high throughput compression creep technique represents a significant advance in the field, offering a novel technique for the rapid evaluation of high-temperature performance of superalloys.

Biography: Dr. Qiang Zhu is a chair professor at the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Prof. Zhu obtained a Dr.-Ing. from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany in 1994. He is a UK FIMMM Fellow, director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Additive Manufacturing of High Performance Materials. He gives a number of invited speeches to internationally well-known academic conferences as well as universities and enterprises, more than 200 publications, 2 academic books, over 60 patents. His current research interests are development of advance metallic materials (especially aluminum and super alloys), novel processing technologies of metels (especially additive manufacturing and semi solid processing), characterization of mechanical properties (especially creep and fatigue) and computing simulation.