• REFERENTS:
  MAURIZIO MALDINI
  

• UNITS:
  MILAN
  

A considerable experience has been achieved in examination of mechanical properties and microstructure in a wide range of materials mainly for high temperature applications, such as wrought alloys for gas turbine disks, conventionally cast, directionally solidified, single crystal alloys for coated and uncoated blades and vanes, creep resistant titanium alloys, TiAl base intermetallic compounds and oxide dispersion strengthened alloys (ODS).

Experimental results, if not protected by confidential agreements, are used in the frame of either national or international programs. Three main areas can be named:

• Constitutive equation development able to describe the mechanical behaviour of materials and to be used for components’ design;
• Support to new alloys development;
• Damage and deformation mechanisms analysis.