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)高级有色结构合金中心(CANFSA)由学生、博士后和教职员工组成，他们与爱荷华州立大学(ISU)的CANFSA同行合作，与来自行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(即合金化和加工对组织、性能和性能的影响)。CANFSA的动机是解决这一领域学生培训的全国性下降问题，这一领域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，只剩下几所大学在这些对我们的工业如此关键的核心科学和工程领域培养学生，特别是在国家对新的先进材料和制造战略进行投资的情况下。事实上，这些下降已经大大削弱了教师、学生和相关行业之间以前存在的协同效应，这反过来又显著削弱了严重依赖这些材料的美国行业的技术主导地位。CANFSA是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的，从而填补这一关键的劳动力发展差距，同时为美国的全球工业竞争力做出贡献。CANFSA的目标是开展与开发、制造和使用先进有色金属结构合金的行业直接相关的关键基础和应用物理冶金研究，并在这些重要学科上培训学生。这是通过让学生参与对行业和政府实验室重要的主题，并让教职员工和外部导师指导学生的基础研究来实现的。中心内开展的项目的具体细节各不相同，因为选定的专题与工业界和国家实验室的合作伙伴最直接相关。到目前为止，该中心在下列领域开展了领先的研究：有色金属的热和机械加工(如第三代Al-Li合金，Ti-6Al-4V的织构各向异性)；超细晶合金及其机械行为(如钛和镁)；高强度β-Ti合金的时效；微共晶铝合金的加工；组织演变(如Ni-Ti-Hf金属间化合物、镍基高温合金、高熵合金)；多层涂层；无润滑剂的压铸；以及微量元素和微结构变化对机械性能的作用。为了进行这些不同的研究项目并实现中心的目标，在理论、建模、加工和表征领域具有互补专业知识的教职员工正在与来自行业和政府实验室的成员合作。MINES拥有各种最先进的处理和表征工具，学生、博士后和教职员工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竞争前的项目。Mines的专业知识与执行支助股的专业知识是相辅相成的，总的来说，CANFSA能够为其成员提供独特的能力。

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.