Publication Newsletter

March 2025

Each month, dozens of peer-reviewed papers are published showcasing research that uses Thermo-Calc Software products. This newsletter highlights some of the latest studies, including applications in additive manufacturing, as well as research on a variety of materials such as steels, titanium, and aluminium. You’ll also find papers covering topics like sustainable metallurgy and the use of machine learning  in materials design. We hope this newsletter serves as a useful resource for your work.

Additive Manufacturing

Microstructure tailoring for crack mitigation in CM247LC manufactured by powder bed fusion – Laser beam

Ahmed Fardan, Andrea Fazi, Jakob Schröder, Tatiana Mishurova, Tobias Deckers, 
Giovanni Bruno, Mattias Thuvander, Andreas Markström, Håkan Brodin, and Eduard Hryha

Additive Manufacturing

Products Used: Additive Manufacturing Module, Nickel-based Superalloys Database

A new process route for the additive manufacturing of a high nitrogen containing martensitic stainless steel - A feasibility study

Louis Becker, Philip König, Jonathan Lentz, and Sebastian L. Weber

Additive Manufacturing Letters

Products Used: Thermo-Calc, Steel and Fe-alloys Database

Spinel oxide enables high-temperature self-lubrication in superalloys

Zhengyu Zhang, Eitan Hershkovitz, Qi An, Liping Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Zhifei Deng, Garrett Baucom, Wenbo Wang, Jing Zhao, Ziming Xin, Lowell Moore, Yi Yao, Md Rezwan Ul Islam, Xin Chen, Bai Cui, Ling Li, Hongliang Xin, Lin Li, Honggyu Kim, and Wenjun Cai

Nature Communications

Products Used: Nickel-based Superalloys Database, Metal Slag and Oxides Database

Avoiding cracks in multi-material printing by combining laser powder bed fusion with metallic foils: application to Ti6Al4V-AlSi12 structures

Amir M. Jamili, Jamasp Jhabvala, Steven van Petegem, Daniel Weisz-Patrault, Éric Boillat, Jiří Nohava, Andac Özsoy, Shruti M. Banait, Nicola Pietro Maria Casati, and Roland E. Logé

Additive Manufacturing

Products Used: Material to Material Calculator, Scheil Calculator, Aluminium-based Alloys Database

Designing against ω phase embrittlement in additively manufactured Ti−13.5Mo metastable β titanium alloy through Sn additions

Jingqi Zhang, Michael Bermingham, Joseph Otte, Ziyong Hou, Chi-Ho Ng, Damon Kent, Xiaoxu Huang, and Matthew Dargusch

Additive Manufacturing

Products Used: Precipitation Module (TC-PRISMA), Titanium and TiAl-based Alloys Database

Sustainable Metallurgy

Influence of Steel Recycling on Phase Transformation in Medium‐Manganese Third‐Generation Advanced High‐Strength Steels

Anindita Chakraborty, Radhakanta Rana, Ulrich Krupp, and Alexander Gramlich

Steel Research International

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Database

High-throughput CALPHAD-guided design and experimental study on the development of a novel multicomponent as-cast Al-Si-Cu-Zn-Fe-Mn-Mg based alloy through the direct melting of post-consumer scrap

Jon Mikel Sanchez, Haize Galarraga, Itziar Marquez, and Maider Garcia de Cortazar

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Products Used: Aluminium-based Alloys Database

Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence

PDGPT: A large language model for acquiring phase diagram information in magnesium alloys

Zini Yan, Hongyu Liang, Jingya Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Shiyu Liang, Ziyuan Rao, and Xiaoqin Zeng

MGE Advances

Products Used: Thermo-Calc

Register for Next Week's AM Webinar!

Don't miss our webinar, Improve Your AM Simulations: Learn How to Use the Latest Features in the Additive Manufacturing Module, on Wednesday, March 19, from 3–4 PM CET / 10–11 AM EDT for a deep dive into the latest advancements in the Additive Manufacturing (AM) Module.

Steel

Effect of substrate Al content on liquid metal embrittlement susceptibility in quench and partitioned steels

Jake Colburn, John G. Speer, and Jonah Klemm-Toole

Materials Science and Engineering: A

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Database, Diffusion Module (DICTRA)

Design and characterisation of new low-alloyed alumina forming ferritic/martensitic steels

Facundo Masari, Rebeca Hernández, Marta Serrano, Jose M. Torralba, and Mónica Campos

Materials Science and Engineering: A

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Database

Titanium

Role of Mo and Zr Additions in Enhancing the Behavior of New Ti–Mo Alloys for Implant Materials

Ahmed H. Awad, Modar Saood, Hayam A. Aly, and Ahmed W. Abdelghany 

Metals and Materials International

Products Used: Titanium and TiAl-based Alloys Database

Aluminium

Effect of Homogenization Cycle on Precipitation of Dispersoids and Abnormal Grain Growth in an Al-Mg-Si Alloy

Sumit Kumar Gahlyan, Pankaj Shivaji Wanjari, Shavi Agrawal, Butchi Bharadwaj, Manu Saxena, and Vivek Srivastava

Materials Science Forum

Products Used: Aluminium-based Alloys Database

Copper

Joining Inconel 718 and GRCop42: A framework for developing transition compositions to avoid cracking and brittle phase formation

Jakub Preis, Stephanie B. Lawson, Nick Wannenmacher, and Somayeh Pasebani

Materials & Design

Products Used: Copper-based Alloys Database

Zirconium

Experimental investigation and model development for grain growth behavior of reactor-grade Zr-Nb-Sn alloy at the temperatures 500–700 °C 

Donghyeon Son and Youho Lee

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Products Used: Zirconium-based Alloys Database, Precipitation Module (TC-PRISMA)

Bulk Metallic Glass

CALPHAD-enabled design of metallic glasses with target properties: Gold-based glass for jewellery 

Owain S. Houghton, Yurii P. Ivanov, Nikolaos T. Panagiotopoulos, and A. Lindsay Greer

Materials & Design

Products Used: General Alloy Solutions Database, Noble Metal Alloys Database

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