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Center Overview
The Center for Advanced Non-Ferrous Structural Alloys (CANFSA) is the premier industry-university research center for non-ferrous physical metallurgy, with an emphasis on the needs of the industries that develop, manufacture, and use non-ferrous alloys.
Fundamental understanding of the effects of processing and alloy composition on microstructural characteristics results in the ability to create new and higher-performing alloys for a wide range of applications in the transportation, construction, defense, energy, and aerospace sectors.
CANFSA connects academia, government, and industry; investigates industrially relevant processing-microstructure-property-performance relationships with state-of-the-art experimentation and modeling; trains students and the next generation of non-ferrous physical metallurgists; and supports students, faculty, and curricula in non-ferrous physical metallurgy.
Center Personnel
Peter Collins
Center Staff
+1 515 294 5225
pcollins@iastate.edu
Amy Clarke
Center Staff
+1 303 273 3000
amyclarke@mines.edu
Research Focus
CANFSA manages over a dozen projects and strives to maintain a balanced portfolio that includes a wide range of alloys. Among projects are those involving titanium, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, gold, silver, and copper alloys, multi-principal element alloys, and shape memory alloys. CANFSA focuses on the design and characterization of non-ferrous structural alloys, specifically addressing the effect of processing and alloy design on properties and performance.
Processing pathways of interest include solidification, solid-state phase transformations and microstructural evolution, additive manufacturing, thermomechanical processing, severe plastic deformation, and coating/joining processes.
Property and performance characteristics include mechanical response at a variety of temperatures, strain rates, and strain states, and material response to service environments. These properties are measured via postmortem mechanical and microstructure evaluation, nondestructive evaluation, and advanced in-situ characterization techniques.
Awards
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. ISU has the equipment, infrastructure, and personnel to support research in non-ferrous physical metallurgy and the expertise in physical metallurgy, materials characterization across scales and modalities, and materials processing 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 outstanding capabilities and personnel at Mines and ISU 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. Read More >
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. Read More >