Sustainability Webinar Series
CALPHAD-based Strategies for Integrating Sustainability into Alloy Design
The escalating demand for sustainable alloys and processes necessitates innovative design and optimization approaches, including increased scrap utilization, reduced energy-intensive processing, and enhanced service lifetimes.
This webinar highlights a few CALPHAD-based strategies for incorporating sustainability into the design of more impurity tolerant sheet steel. Specifically, how to best optimize the HSLA 340 cold-rolled steel to accommodate the rising Cu impurity content in the current scrap supply. CALPHAD-based simulations will evaluate how copper increases hot-cracking and crack-susceptibility, and impacts solidification and continuous cooling microstructure evolution, thereby affecting critical material properties like ductility and formability.
Based on these evaluations, potential strategies are considered to compensate for detrimental properties due to increased copper content. These include optimizing cooling rates and aging temperatures, re-optimizing alloying elements to increase precipitation strengthening, and potential alloying additions to improve grain boundary adhesion. This example provides a framework for developing more robust and sustainable alloys in the face of evolving material demands.
Thermo-Calc Software’s Sustainability Webinar Series
This webinar is a part of the Thermo-Calc Sustainability Webinar Series, which features four presentations demonstrating practical ways Thermo-Calc products can support sustainability goals in key areas: sustainable processing and emissions reduction, aluminum recycling, and sustainable alloy development.
The series runs from November 2025 to December 2025 and includes four webinars in total: two by Thermo-Calc Solutions AB, and two featuring Thermo-Calc users sharing sustainability applications. Join us to learn, explore, and see how Thermo-Calc tools and services can support your sustainability initiatives.