Welcome to Advanced Alloys

Understanding the world around us involves understanding how materials behave and their properties. Through this knowledge we can seek to improve them and utilise them in new and exciting ways. Metals and alloys form an integral part of this body of knowledge and are used all around us.

We seek to improve our understanding of metals and alloys from their processing and microstructure through to their behaviour under certain temperature, loading and fluid flow conditions. Computational models are both developed and used to simulate how and why given behaviours arise. Using this as a basis, means we can try and improve on current technology with our academic and commercial collaborators.

Advanced alloy research at Imperial College London covers a broad range of disciplines. The research ranges from experimental study of the alloys including processing under novel and extreme conditions, characterization of such materials under development, in service and after failure, and computational simulation at many scales of size and time - simulation of atomic interactions, development of microstructure, and damage accumulation.