Materials Center Leoben: Success Stories

Modeling residual stresses in Ti-6Al-4V aircraft components helps improve understanding of the production process, reduce scrap, and thereby enhance...

Comprehensive environmental monitoring. An energy-autonomous sensor system is being developed at materials center leoben.

MCL and voestalpine Aerospace reduce the number of required forging steps in the manufacturing of safety-critical aircraft components.

Top: Sketch of the measurement setup for the demonstration on the wheel-rail test rig, image: MCL; bottom: Image of fine cracks on the rail head generated on the test stand Image: voestalpine Rail Technology GmbH

A system for continuous rail monitoring that uses piezo-electric sensors and ultrasonic waves to detect surface cracks at an early stage.

Scientific studies show that the higher the CO₂ level, the worse people’s ability to concentrate is. At the Materials Center Leoben, researchers are...

$Figure 1: Bamboo-like microstructure of an investigated duplex steel consisting of comparable phase fractions of ferrite (dark) and austenite (light); Image: MCL$

Novel method for investigating hydrogen embrittlement enables safer transport and storage materials

Prediction of steel properties from process data in industrial production with a neural network; © MCL

Consideration of measurement and model uncertainties for recycling to minimize CO₂ in steel production.

Electric sports car as an application example for high-performance batteries. Photo by Bob Osias on Unsplash

The use of silicon for lithium-ion batteries enables significantly higher energy densities than graphite, but silicon still shows problems during...

The fluorescent tubes in the station lighting are gradually being replaced by modern LED lamps, which save energy thanks to their lower power consumption and long service life. CopyRight: Johannes Zinner

Bayesian modeling: a milestone in the thermal analysis of LEDs enables more reliable predictive maintenance.

Left: Dr. Natalia Bedoya-Martinez, right: Dr. Jürgen Spitaler Foto: MCL

MCL employees hold key positions in national and international material development committees.

Success Stories

Optimized Aircraft Parts Through Residual Stress Modeling

Energy-Autonomous Sensor System for Environmental Monitoring

Fewer Forging Steps - Longer Aircraft Service Life

Inaudible to Passengers, Audible to Technology: Detecting Fine Rail Cracks Using Ultrasonic Waves

CO₂-Tracking 2.0: Personalized Air-Quality Monitoring for the Classrooms of the Future

Small but Mighty - On the Trail of the Smallest Atom in the Energy Transition

Webtool for AI-Modeling of Green Steel

How and Why Silicon Determines the Service Life of High-performance Batteries

With Artificial Intelligence to Longer Living LED Luminaires

MCL Employees at the Heartbeat of European Material Development