Department of Materials
Engineering (MTM)
Prof. Martine Wevers
Department Chair
KU Leuven
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MTM: contact
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Address
Department of Material Engineering (MTM)
KU Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 bus 2450
B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven)
Belgium
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Telephone secretariat
+32 16 32 13 14
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Fax secretariat
+32 16 32 19 90
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e-mail
info@mtm.kuleuven.be
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Website
www.mtm.kuleuven.be
MTM: Mission
• Education
• Research
• Services
MTM: Education
• Bachelor programme (3 year programme in Dutch)
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Bachelor of Engineering: Materials Engineering
• Master programme (2 year programme in Dutch)
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Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
• International Master programme (2 year programme in
English)
• Master of Engineering: Materials Engineering
MTM: Research: overview
Chairman
Departemental
manager
Technical
manager
ICT, Logistic and Secretariat
Structural Composites
and Alloys, Integrity and
Non-destructive Testing
(SCALINT)
Composites
Materials
Technicians
Sustainable Metals
Processing
and Recycling
(SeMPeR)
High Temperature
Processes and
Industrial Ecology
Metals and
Alloys
Sustainability
Assessments
of Material
Life Cycles
Materials
Performance and
Non-Destructive
Testing
Solidification
and
Microstructure
Simulation
Surface and Interface
Engineered Materials
(SIEM)
Materials
For
Living
Systems
Advanced
Ceramics and
Powder
Metallurgy
Materials
With Novel
Functionality
Materials
Technology
(TC)
TC @ Kulab
TC @
Thomas
More
Mechelen
TC @ KHLim
TC @
GROUP T
TC @ KAHO
Sint-Lieven
MTM: Research areas
• SCALINT
Structural Composites and Alloys, Integrity and Nondestructive Testing
(Bert Verlinden)
• SeMPeR
Sustainable Metals Processing and Recycling
(Bart Blanpain)
• SIEM
Surface and Interface Engineered Materials
(Jan Fransaer)
• TC
Materials Technology
(Bert Van Bael)
MTM: Research areas: SCALINT
• Composite Materials
Stepan Lomov – David Seveno – Jan Ivens
• Metals and Alloys
Bert Verlinden – Marc Seefeldt
• Materials Performance and Non-Destructive Testing
Martine Wevers – Ingrid De Wolf
MTM: Research areas: SeMPeR
• High Temperature Processes and Industrial Ecology
Bart Blanpain – Peter Tom Jones
• Sustainability Assessments of Material Life Cycles
Karel Van Acker
• Solidification and Microstructure Simulation
Patrick Wollants – Nele Moelans – Ludo Froyen
MTM: Research areas: SIEM
• Materials for Living Systems
Jan Schrooten – Jennifer Patterson
• Advanced Ceramics and Powder Metallurgy
Jan Van Humbeek – Jef Vleugels
• Materials with Novel Functionality
Jan Fransaer – Marc Heyns – Maria Seo – Marc De Bonte – Walter
Bogaerts
MTM: Research areas: TC
• Materials Technology TC Materials Technology TC @
Kulab
Frederik Desplentere
• Materials Technology TC @ Thomas More Mechelen
Jan Ivens
• Materials Technology TC @ KHLim
Bert Van Bael
• Materials Technology TC @ GROUP T
Materials Technology TC @ KAHO Sint-Lieven
Dimitri Debruyne
MTM: Research groeps: Composite Materials
The Composite Materials Group has four research
focuses:
• Composites on Micro- and Nano- Level: “engineering” by intelligent
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placement of nano-reinforcements
Composites on Macro- and Meso- Level: experimental and
modelling studies of textile composites, random fibre composites,
textiles, porous materials and biomaterials
Natural and biobased composites: fibre morphology and mechanical
performance, fibre-matrix interfacial adhesion, novel fibre processing
methods
Processing and product development: concurrent optimisation of
products and manufacturing processes
MTM: Research groeps: Metals and Alloys
The Metals and Alloys group deals mainly with the
plasticity of advanced metallic materials. Its activities
include:
• Analysing and modelling of microstructure and texture evolution during
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plastic deformation
Deriving physics-based constitutive laws for their mechanical
behaviour
Developing dedicated characterisation methods for their complex
microstructures
Participating in the development of innovative deformation processes
MTM: Research groeps: Materials
Performance and Non-Destructive Testing
The Materials Performance and Non-destructive
Testing group investigates the long-term behaviour and
reliability of materials. Damage development during
different loading types is studied, using a number of
Non-destructive and advanced monitoring techniques:
Acoustic emission, real-time microfocus X-ray
radiography, nano- and micro-computed tomography, eddy
currents, ultrasound, optical fibre sensors etc…
Besides polymers, ceramics and metals, research is also
dealing with advanced materials such as particulate or
fibre reinforced composites and cellular materials.
MTM: Research groeps: High Temperature
Processes and Industrial Ecology
Research line: High Temperature Processes and
Industrial Ecology
• High temperature metallurgical experimentation and process modelling
• Micro-analytical characterisation and in-situ high temperature
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observation
Vessel integrity: refractory materials and freeze linings
Industrial ecology
Centre for High Temperature Processes and Sustainable Materials
Management
MTM: Research groeps: Sustainability
Assessments of Material Life Cycles
Research line: Sustainability Assessments of Material
Life Cycles
• Sustainability assessments using LCA, exergy analysis and ELCA, on
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a.o. bio-based resins, CFRP composite materials and landfill mining
Development of methodologies to improve the life cycle impact of
materials through closing material loops
MTM: Research groeps: Solidification and
Microstructure Simulation
Research line: Solidification and Microstructure
Simulation
• Solidification along a eutectic path in ternary alloys
• In-situ X-ray monitoring of advanced metallurgical processes under
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micro gravity and terrestrial conditions
Microstructure development in quaternary alloys
Calculation of phase diagrams for bulk and nanosystems
Simulation of microstructure evolution during phase transformations,
recrystallisation and grain growth
MTM: Research groeps: Materials for Living
Systems
Research line: Materials for Living Systems
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Biomaterials
Bone tissue engineering and scaffolds
Bioreactors
Biosensors and drug delivery
Surface coatings
MTM: Research groeps: Advanced Ceramics
and Powder Metallurgy
Research line: Advanced Ceramics and Powder
Metallurgy
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Electrophoretic deposition
Processing of laminated and functionally graded materials
Electrically conductive composites for electrical discharge machining
Nanocomposites
Microwave and pulsed electric current sintering
Modelling of the electrophoretic deposition and pulsed electric current
sintering processes.
MTM: Research groeps: Materials with Novel
Functionality
Research line: Materials with Novel Functionality
• Thin films
• Nano-materials
• Electrochemical and colloidal processing and synthesis of materials
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and coatings
Electrochemical surface characterization
Surface degradation, reactivity and protection of materials and
coatings (friction, wear, self-healing, and lubrication)
MTM: Services
• Troubleshooting and Failure Analysis
Contact: M. De Bonte, L. Froyen, M. Wevers
• Technological assistance for surface technology
Contact: M. De Bonte
• Technological assistance for polymer matrix
composites
Contact: Aart Willem Van Vuure
MTM: Population
Academic year
Bachelor
Dutch
Master
Eng.
Master
Erasmus
Total
MTM: Population (June 2014)
ZAP
(16,7 VTE)
13 full time ZAP (incl. 3 BOF-ZAP)
6 part time ZAP (incl. 2 imec professors)
4 guest-professors
BAP
37 postdocs
95 doctoral students
ATP
31 administrative en technical personel
Other MTM activities