Reduce development time with our modelling and design services
On-time and efficient delivery of services tailored to your development needs
QuesTek ICME and Materials by Design™
Services
Leverage state-of-the-art materials- and process-modelling to complement your in-house capabilities
Avoid experimental trial-and-error; get it right from the beginning
Reliable and high-quality modelling results and recommendations
Minimize risks and costs related to design, development and upscaling
Physics-based models and advanced statistics replaces pure empirical confidence
Improving materials design and development using powerful software and validated methodology
Solving materials-based challenges
Our team of experts ensure fast, reliable, high quality delivery of services, from specific calculations and analysis to complete ICME evaluation, and materials & process design.
Working closely with your engineers, QuesTek identifies, plans and executes on the modelling and design activities that provides the most value to your development project.
Demonstrated ability to design and deploy the world’s highest performance materials
Accelerating the development and insertion of enabling materials
Based on extensive experience & building upon 600+ completed projects across all major alloying systems & processing technologies, QuesTek offers customized analysis, modelling, and materials design, development or optimization services.
Custom services building upon experience from 600+ projects across material families and processing routes
Example services provided to industry
Content and deliverable of a service is customized to meet your specific needs. We tailor our services based on what you are trying to achieve and available resources in the project.
Modelling service
ICME evaluation of your material
Analysis and select modelling of process-structure-property-performance links for your current material and process. Evaluation of sensitivity to process variables.
Identification of materials & process optimization strategies
Modelling service
Material selection for a new product
Analysis and modelling of select properties / processability metrics. Screening a range of materials based on performance needs and processing constraints.
Recommended materials for experimental testing and up-scaling
Design service
Optimized heat treatment cycle
Analysis of problem and client data, and modelling heat treatment effects on properties, including uncertainty quantification. Optimization for robust and reliable properties.
New heat treatment schedule to enhance product quality & yield
Design service
Refined composition specification
Analysis and modelling effects of microstructure and properties. Uncertainty quantification and optimization of alloying content and allowable impurity ranges.