Laser cladding as resource efficient manufacturing route for high temperature corrosion and wear resistant coatings based on High Entropy Alloys (HEA) - cladHEA+

Project summary

The main ambition of cladHEA+ is to be pioneer in the material science of High Entropy Alloys (HEA) while at the same time contributing significantly for their introduction in the industrial field as innovative substitutes for state-of-the-art coatings used under severe conditions currently based on critical materials. The attraction but also the challenge of HEA lies in its enormous range of possible combinations in terms of type, number and amount of elements, and resulting properties. Supported by modelling and simulation programs, the HEA systems will be systematically selected, studied and characterized within this project. This innovative approach, based on in-situ alloying by laser cladding, implemented by an international Consortium working in a complementary manner, significantly shortens the development and transfer time of the HEA systems to industry (resource efficient screening). Within cladHEA+ an Open-Source Database on HEA will be created for further R&D advantage.