News - Luleå University of Technology

14th International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science

20 Jun. 2021 09:00 – 23 Jun. 2021 16:00 , Kulturens Hus:

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we warmly welcome materials scientists, researchers, engineers and ceramic manufacturers to Luleå, a historical coastal city of Swedish Lapland, for the 14th International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science from June 20-23, 2021. The Division of Materials Sciecne at Luleå University of Technology and Department of Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University Sweden will jointly organize this prestigious meeting.

World leading steel industry network visited the university

The world-leading steel industry network, the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), visited Luleå University of Technology to get more insight into ongoing steel research at Luleå University of Technology. With 17,500 members in over 70 countries, the network aims to promote sustainable technological development in the world, in iron and steel production, processing and use.

Magnus nails his thesis

Magnus Neikter has nailed his dissertation entitled "Microstructure and Hydrogen embrittlement in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V".

"The teachers are open and helpful"

Joakim Sandberg from Luleå reads the fifth and final year at the Master Programme in Materials Science & Engineering (EEIGM). He chose to read the entire education in Luleå instead of going abroad.

Dissertation in Engineering Materials – Farnoosh Forouzan

10 May. 2019 10:00 – 12:30 , E231:

Increasing phase transformation rate in advanced high strength steel applications

Open online course will reduce the environmental impact of food packaging

In a recent EU project, Luleå University of Technology has been part of developing an open distance course, a so-called MOOC. The course is aimed at professionals and aims at reducing the environmental impact from food packaging.

Well-known steel professor held lectures

One of the world's top professors in steel, Sir H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia at Cambridge University, visited Luleå University of Technology to hold two guest lectures on steel.

Safer road barriers with high strength steels

By switching to high strength steels in road barriers, safety can be even better, while a smaller amount of steel needs to be used in the thinner beams. The results are presented in a three-year EU project that was recently completed, where Luleå University of Technology had an important role in material testing.

HIPEBA

In the appended films is the final results of the HIPEBA project expressed in a good way.
The high strength steel, from SSAB, applied to the road restraint system can manage to stop the crash from a heavy truck in an excellent way.
In addition can the new design of the road restraint system also give a good reaction if it is hit by a small sized car, and the vehicle will not bump out back to the road with a too high angle.

Donation strengthens research in ultra high strength steels

Recently, there was an inauguration of a salt bath oven in the materials lab at Luleå University of Technology. The equipment has been donated by the companies Indexator and Rototilt, with the aim of strengthening research cooperation in robust ausferritic steel between the university and the technology development company Ausferritic.

Article on gravitation receives award

Physicists Johan Hansson and Stephane Francois at Luleå University of Technology have received the Honorable Mention Award by the Gravity Research Foundation. The award is given for their article, which deals with how to test quantum gravity.

Dissertation in Engineering Materials – Erik Nilsson

28 Apr. 2017 09:00 – 11:00 , E632:

Erik nails

Photo: Daniel Hedman

Inauguration of TMTEST

The new lab environment TMTEST was inaugurated at the Department of Materials Science, Luleå University of Technology. It is a new national infrastructure for research in thermal-mechanical materials testing and simulations.

10 000 °C in a second

Gleeble 3800 is a state-of-the-art equipment installed in the materials lab at Luleå University of Technology. It will be used for thermal-mechanical materials testing and simulations. For example, the Gleeble can heat a sample with 10 000 °C per second.

Engineering Materials of all times - from the stone age to the steel age

8 Nov. 2016 11:30 – 12:15 :

Birhan nails

Photo: Daniel Hedman

More than one million minutes viewed

Four years ago, the first, short educational online video made by teachers at the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, was published.
Now there are over 500 online videos – with more than 1,2 million minutes viewed.

Dissertation in Materials - Pia Åkerfeldt

Pictures of disputation
Photo: Daniel Hedman

Dissertation in Engineering Materials - Pia Åkerfeldt

29 Apr. 2016 09:00 – 11:00 , E632:

Dissertation in Engineering Materials - Latifa Melk

20 May. 2016 11:00 – 13:00 , Aula Capella, ETSEIB, UPC, Barcelona, Spanien:

Pia nails

Latifa nails

Material researcher is granted 15 million from SSF

Farid Akhtar, Associate Professor in Engineering Materials at Luleå University of Technology, has received 15 million SEK from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF, to build an infrastructure for research in thermo mechanics and tribology.

Praised article on high performance steels

The researchers Alejandro Leiro and Esa Vuorinen at Luleå University of Technology are two of the authors of an award-winning article that evaluates bainitic steels. It is a new type of heat-treated steel that has very high strength and good toughness.

Dissertation in Engineering Materials

31 Mar. 2015 10:15 – 12:15 , E246:

Dissertation in Engineering Materials

29 Apr. 2014 09:30 – 11:30 , E231, Luleå University of Technology:

Alejandro

Raghuveer defended his dissertation

Raghu spikar

Department Meeting Storforsen 2013

24 Nov. 2020 18:44 :

Materials scientists conferred at LTU

On 21-22 March the EEIGM Advanced Materials Research Conference 2013 was held at Luleå University of Technology and was organized by the Division of Materials Science and Composite Centre Sweden at LTU.

Materials science in the media: LTU's distance education is developed through pilot study

Alpha case - a case for Marta-Lena

Marta-Lena Antti, researcher in materials engineering, is one of thirteen scholars in the country that received a grant from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) under the program Strategic Mobility. The program aims to increase mobility between academia and industry and gives the researcher the opportunity to change workplace during a period.