CTIF

All major technological progress is dependent on improvement of the performance of existing materials or on the appearance of new materials providing better performance. Foundries are not exempt from such logic, and they in fact increasingly contribute towards it.
 
The search for ever greater specific properties has therefore become a permanent concern of foundries and designers of castings in order to reduce the size and weight of parts wherever possible, and therefore provide ever increasing performance parts. Foundries can then remain more competitive and consequently conquer new markets.

Suivi d'une fissure de fatigue dans une fonte GS All technological processes are based upon materials whose reliability must be controlled with respect to the prevailing techno-economic stakes. Thus, any progress involves increasing this reliability. Cast metallic materials are also obviously involved in this approach and with patent ever increasing success.
 
It is therefore essential nowadays to be able to predict the in-service behaviour of castings and one of the keys to success resides in particular in being able to anticipate and to measure the impact of any defects on such behaviour.
 
Enhanced reliability is a fundamental path for R&D at CTIF, in combination with work on the implementation of controlled defects and functional prediction using modelling confronted with real tests.