Materials Performance Competence Spearhead

Materials Performance Competence Spearhead PerforMat is an ambitious initiative designed to advance Materials Genome Initiative in Finland. It focuses on advanced materials, targeting their optimized use and performance as a part of engineering systems crucial for Finnish export. For this ultimate goal, Materials Performance RDI partnership network PerforMat:

1. brings together key stakeholders along the development value chain of advanced materials: new ultrahigh-strength steels and novel thin films and coatings, and their use in critical components of modern industrial systems
2. collaboratively produces the research data which is needed for closing the performance feedback loop
3. boosts competitiveness of Finnish industry by accelerating the materials development continuum for high-performance industrial applications by integrating experimental research, computational modelling and data informatics
4. demonstrates the performance gain by the feedback loop, and v) creates practices for sharing research infrastructure, data and virtual tools to enhance the transparency of science and exploitation of results.

The research partners in the network are active players in regional and national competence centres as well as in international scientific community. The partners of the business sector represent all key sectors in Finnish export, covering the entire value chain from materials development to their use as a part of engineering systems, and involving large companies, SMEs and associations. The research basis of the PerforMat partnership network is in the Materials Genome Initiative approach that is integrating experimental research, computational modelling and data informatics, for accelerating the introduction of new advanced materials in real applications to improve materials performance under demanding conditions. By doing so, the network will improve the competitiveness of companies through lengthened component lifetimes, planned maintenance intervals, lowered energy costs and reduced CO2 emissions. The network will be an important step towards a data economy in the field of materials performance.

Total budget

€1.4M (University of Oulu’s budget €0.4M for Materials and Mechanical Engineering)

Partners:

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Tampere University and University of Oulu