Phase II I/UCRC Colorado School of Mines Site: Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA)

科罗拉多矿业学院（CSM）的高级有色金属结构合金中心（CANFSA）由学生、博士后和教师组成，他们与爱荷华州立大学（ISU）的CANFSA同行合作，与来自工业和政府实验室的科学家和工程师一起研究有色金属合金的物理和机械冶金基础（即合金化和加工对微观结构、性能和性能的影响）。CANFSA的动机是解决该领域学生培训的全国下降问题，这对美国在高性能材料、结构和先进制造领域的主导地位至关重要。今天，只有少数几所大学在这些对我们的工业至关重要的核心科学和工程领域培养学生，特别是在国家投资于新的先进材料和制造战略的情况下。事实上，这些下降已经大大减少了；以前存在于教师、学生和相关行业之间的协同效应，而这反过来又大大削弱了严重依赖科技的美国行业的技术主导地位。在这些材料上。CANFSA的成立旨在通过对这些先进材料及其制造进行基础科学研究来应对这一趋势，从而填补这一关键的劳动力发展缺口，同时为美国的全球工业竞争力做出贡献。CANFSA的目标是开展关键的基础和应用物理冶金；与开发、制造和使用先进技术产业直接相关的研究。有色金属结构合金，并培养学生在这些重要的科目。这是通过让学生参与对行业和政府实验室重要的主题，并有教师和外部导师指导学生的基础研究来实现的。在中心内进行的项目的具体细节因所选择的主题与工业界和国家实验室的合作伙伴最直接相关而有所不同。迄今为止，该中心在以下领域开展了领先的研究：有色合金的热加工和机械加工（例如，第三代铝锂合金，Ti-6Al-4V的织构各向异性）；超细晶合金及其力学行为（如Ti和Mg）；高强度β - ti合金的时效；微共晶铝合金加工；显微组织演变（如Ni-Ti-Hf金属间化合物、ni基高温合金、高熵合金）；多层涂层;无润滑油压铸件；以及微量元素和微观组织变化对力学性能的影响。为了开展这些不同的研究项目并完成中心的目标，教员与之相辅相成；理论、建模、处理和表征领域的专家与来自工业和政府实验室的成员一起工作。Mines拥有各种最先进的处理和表征工具，学生、博士后和教师可以使用这些工具来解决我们的许多成员公司感兴趣的复杂但具有竞争力的项目。Mines的专业知识与ISU的专业知识相辅相成，CANFSA能够为其会员提供独特的能力。

The Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) consists of students, post-docs and faculty who work with their CANFSA counterparts at Iowa State University (ISU) to engage with scientists and engineers from both industry and government laboratories in research on the fundamentals of the physical and mechanical metallurgy of non-ferrous alloys (i.e., alloying and processing effects on microstructure, properties and performance). The motivation for CANFSA is to address the national decline in the training of students in this area that is critical to U.S. dominance in high performance materials, structures and advanced manufacturing. Today, there are only a few universities remaining who train students in these core science and engineering areas that are so critical to our industries, especially as National investments are made in new advanced materials and manufacturing strategies. In fact, these declines have greatly reduced; the synergies that existed previously between faculty, students, and the relevant industries, and this, in turn, significantly weakened the technical dominance of US industries that rely heavily  on these materials. CANFSA was organized to counter this trend by conducting fundamental scientific studies on these advanced materials and their manufacturing, thereby filling this critical workforce development gap and simultaneouslycontributing to U.S. global industrial competitiveness.The objective of CANFSA is to conduct critical basic and applied physical metallurgy;research of direct relevance to the industries that develop, manufacture and use advanced  non-ferrous structural alloys, and to train students in these important subjects. This is accomplished by engaging students in topics of importance to industry and government labs, and to have both faculty members and external mentors guide the students' fundamental research. The specific details of the projects that are conducted within the Center vary as topics are selected that have the most direct relevance for the partners from industry and the national laboratories. To date, the Center has conducted leading research in the areas of: thermal and mechanical processing of non-ferrous alloys (e.g., 3rd Generation Al-Li alloys, texture anisotropy of Ti-6Al-4V); ultrafine grained alloys and their mechanical behavior (e.g., Ti and Mg); aging of high-strength beta-Ti alloys; processing of microeutectic Al alloys; microstructural evolution (e.g., Ni-Ti-Hf intermetallics, Ni-based superalloys, high entropy alloys); multi-layer coatings; lube-free die casting; and the role of trace elements and small microstructural variations on mechanical properties. To conduct these varied research projects and accomplish the goals of the Center, faculty members with complementary ;expertise in the areas of theory, modeling, processing and characterization are working together with members from industry and government laboratories. Mines has a variety of state-of-the-art processing and characterization tools that students, post-docs, and faculty use to address complex, yet precompetitive, projects that are of interest to a number of the our member companies. The expertise at Mines is complementary to that at ISU and, collectively, CANFSA is able to offer unique capabilities to its membership.