IUCRC Phase III Colorado School of Mines: Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA)

科罗拉多矿业学院（Mines）和爱荷华州立大学（ISU）的先进有色金属结构合金中心（CANFSA）是唯一一个由大学领导的进行有色合金物理冶金研究的联盟，从轻质镁到高温耐火合金。CANFSA通过竞争前研究，支持教师，建立对美国制造业具有战略重要性的领域（特别是与航空航天和国防相关的领域）培训的学生劳动力管道，生成并应用新知识来解决大学，政府和行业利益相关者确定的具有挑战性的问题。CANFSA通过最先进的实验和建模来研究工业相关的加工-微观结构-性能-性能关系，培养下一代有色金属物理冶金学家，并为物理冶金的学生，教师和课程提供支持。CANFSA的重点领域包括轻量化、高温和其他材料，包括涂料，涵盖航空航天、能源、国防、国家安全、基础设施、汽车和生物医学领域。科罗拉多矿业学院拥有支持有色金属物理冶金研究的设备，基础设施和专业知识，并在材料表征，加工和变形方面具有互补的专业知识，通过最先进的实验，建模以及基于应用和制造的见解，通过基础和应用科学解决难题。CANFSA项目的结构是利用世界自然保护委员会两个地点（科罗拉多矿业学院和爱荷华州立大学）以及行业合作伙伴和国家实验室的能力和人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA) at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and Iowa State University (ISU) is the only university-led consortium performing non-ferrous alloy physical metallurgy research, from lightweight magnesium to high-temperature refractory alloys. CANFSA generates and applies new knowledge to solve challenging problems identified by university, government, and industry stakeholders via pre-competitive research, supporting faculty, and building a student workforce pipeline trained in areas of strategic importance to U.S. manufacturing, especially relevant to aerospace and defense. CANFSA investigates industrially-relevant processing-microstructure-property-performance relationships with state-of-the-art experimentation and modeling, trains the next generation of non-ferrous physical metallurgists, and supports students, faculty, and curricula in physical metallurgy.CANFSA’s thrust areas include lightweight, high temperature, and other materials, including coatings, spanning the aerospace, energy, defense, national security, infrastructure, automotive, and biomedical sectors. Colorado School of Mines has the equipment, infrastructure, and expertise to support research in non-ferrous physical metallurgy, with complementary expertise in materials characterization, processing and deformation to tackle difficult problems through basic and applied science with state-of-the-art experimentation and modeling and application- and manufacturing-based insights. CANFSA projects are structured to leverage the capabilities and personnel at both IUCRC sites (Colorado School of Mines and Iowa State University), along with industry partners and national laboratories.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.