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This contribution reports the results of the collaborative research unit SFB 761 “Steel — ab initio”, a cooperative project between RWTH Aachen University and the Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf (MPIE) financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). For the first time, it is exploited how ab initio approaches may lead to a detailed understanding and thus to a specific improvement of material development. The challenge lies in the combination of abstract natural science theories with rather engineering-like established concepts. Aiming at the technological target of the development of a new type of structural materials based on Fe-Mn-C alloys, the combination of ab initio and engineering methods is new, but could be followed quite successfully. Three major topics are treated in this research unit: a) development of a new method for material- and process-development based on ab initio calculations; b) design of a new class of structural materials with extraordinary property combinations; c) acceleration of development time and reduction of experimental efforts and complexity for material- and process-development. In the present work, an overview of the results of the first five years as well as an outlook for the upcoming three-year period is given.
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Prahl, U., Bleck, W., Saeed-Akbari, A. (2013). Steel — ab Initio: Quantum Mechanics Guided Design of New Fe-Based Materials. In: Li, M., Campbell, C., Thornton, K., Holm, E., Gumbsch, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48194-4_6
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