Key information Project in the Spotlight: S17013a/16347 Market: Civil Written by Kinga Klima and M2i Program Manager: Viktoria Savran Introduction Today great attention is paid to the increased energy efficiency in buildings. This has resulted in the application of many new synthetic materials for thermal insulation. Often these synthetic
Key information Project in the Spotlight: N21022 Market: Circularity Written by the project team: Jeroen van Beeck (M2i) Introduction In May of 2022, NWO granted the program Data Enhanced Physical models to reduce Materials use (DEPMAT) under the Perspectief call. This five years research program is led by Prof. dr. ir. Ton van
Key information Project in the Spotlight: T20017 Market: Hybrid and composite materials Written by the project team: Femme van Gils (Ace & Tate), Fan-Hsuan Liu and Shashan Abrahimi (TU Delft), M2i manager: Viktoria Savran Background Ace & Tate, as a sustainability front-runner in the eyewear market, is dedicated to reducing its environmental
Key information Project in the Spotlight: F41.3.14546a Market: Advanced Metals Written by: dr.ir. Aytac Yilmaz, dr. Yaiza Gonzalez-Garcia, dr. Viktoria Savran Introduction Corrosion is a tremendously important issue in the use of metals. It is estimated that the global cost of corrosion is around €2.37 trillion, equivalent to roughly 3.4 percent of
Key information Project in the Spotlight: S16039 Market: Applied Mechanical Behaviour Written by: Viktoria Savran Introduction Steel strip is the base material for products you see every day: the can of your soft drink, the doors of a car, or your galvanized steel cupboard. The requirements to the strip material are ever
Key information Project in the Spotlight: E18017 (3DMed) Market: Additive Biotech Written by: Franz Bormann Figure 1: Person with a transtibial socket. The previous decade has been a time full of technological advancements in a large variety of industry sectors. One sector that has gained a growing interest and is
Key information Project in the Spotlight: E17002 (2S03-051 Qualify) Market: Maritime Industry Written by: Franz Bormann In the past years, the maritime industry has been facing an increasing demand for decarbonisation and sustainability. One of the conventional routes to achieve a substantial reduction in carbon emissions is to lower fuel consumption. This
Key information Project in the Spotlight: S17014 Market: Advanced Metals Written by: Viktoria Savran Research background In the automotive industry, the paint appearance of outer panels is strongly influenced by the waviness of the parts after forming. Such waviness may induce diffusive scattering of light after paint baking, which produces a loss
Key information Project in the Spotlight: S17024e/P16-46 Market: Additive Manufacturing Written by: Viktoria Savran Introduction Large engineering structures like turbines, metallic bridges or industrial machinery are generally still manufactured by traditional processes such as forging, casting, welding, bolting or by machining them from solid blocks. These processes do not allow for the
Key information Project in the Spotlight: T16046 Market: Materials production Written by: Viktoria Savran Dynamic behaviour of liquid-solid systems applied to the blast furnace hearth The blast furnace is quite possibly the most intricate multiphase system. With high temperature liquid iron and slag, burden particles and reduction gases; enormous volume and different