Hierarchic Engineering of Industrial Materials
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN - Institutionen för materialvetenskap |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 13 999 990 |
| Project duration | May 2015 - April 2017 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The long-term goal as summarised by the vision of Hero-m: Within 10 years industrially relevant materials are designed in an integrated process involving all appropriate scales of length and time. The performance of these materials is further tuned to obtain desired properties at minimum cost and time by a multi-length scale engineering approach.
Expected results and effects
The Hero-m centre was a huge success, both from an academic perspective as well as from an industrial perspective. For instance, within Hero-m over 236 papers have been published in prestigious peer-review scientific journals; 27 PhDs have graduated, all graduated PhDs have been very attractive for jobs in academia and industry; knowledge vital for innovations has been generated and e.g. one of the industrial partners of Hero-m has patented more than 100 innovations where research results from Hero-m have been critical.
Planned approach and implementation
The research within Hero-m covered industrially relevant materials with potential for improvement, e.g. steels and cemented carbides and materials that were expected to become important in the future, e.g. amorphous steels. The research involved fundamental topics of strategic value as well as more applied topics. The main emphasis was on new theoretical predictive tools but experimental verification and measurements also played an essential role.