Case Studies / Application Profiles

Dynamic Systems has been supporting cutting edge research and production enhancements for over half a century. Over the years, there have been notable discoveries and improvements for organizations of all sizes.

Below is a small sample of success stories from Dynamic System's long history. Click a link below to view each profile or news story:

New:

Accelerated Development of New Steel Alloys using the Gleeble and Laser Ultrasonics (LUMet) at Baosteel
Gleeble to the Rescue - Wits School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering can now test new metals cost-effectively in the lab
Steel Times Article: Near Net Shape Casting Explained - see how Warwick University is using Gleeble technology to drive their research
Gleeble Supports Additive Manufacturing Research at Iowa State and Ames Laboratory
Featured Paper: Different Applications of the Gleeble Thermal–Mechanical Simulator in Material Testing, Technology Optimization, and Process Modeling
10,000° in a second... The Gleeble at Luleå University of Technology will drive experimental research in materials testing and process simulation

Past Articles:

- LeTourneau University

- University of Birmingham

- Böhler Edelstahl

- Avesta Sheffield

- Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH

- IPSCO

- Tata Iron & Steel

- Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Colorado

- Dofasco

- General Electric Research and Development Center

- University of Oulu, Finland

- British Steel Laboratories

- Rocketdyne

- University of Alabama at Birmingham

- University of British Columbia

- National Steel, Detroit

- California Polytechnic

- Iowa State and Ames Laboratory

- University of Science and Technology, Beijing

- Lehigh University- Los Alamos National Laboratory

- Nippon Steel- Edison Welding Institute

- Colorado School of Mines

- Ohio State University

- ALCOA- CANMET

- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

- Carpenter Technology Corporation

If you or your organization has an interesting example of how a Gleeble contributed to an advance in materials science, please let us know so that we can feature your story. E-mail us at info@gleeble.com.

Dr. Luis A. Colembergue Klujszo

Gerdau Aços Especiais Piratini

"Through the capability of simulating large scale, expensive processes in a small scale, laboratory environment, the Gleeble has made it easier for Gerdau to improve products and processes. Furthermore, all the controls available in the equipment bring a whole lot of reliability to the results, making the conclusions very sound."

Chihiro Kasamatsu

Material Evaluation Department Aichi Steel Corporation

“…we are concentrating on testing with the Gleeble to reduce costs in our forging production processes…”

Dr. Arnold Marder

Energy Research Center, Lehigh University

“What we are aiming at is intelligent processing. That’s where the Gleeble gives us a tremendous advantage. By allowing us to carefully simulate and model thermal and mechanical processes”

Dr. Warren Poole

University of British Columbia

"We had to generate all the parameters and then to validate the predictions that the computer model made… The Gleeble played a central role in that project. We did austenite grain growth studies, double-hit compression tests to study recrystallization, and continuous cooling transformations, with and without compression."

Dr. John Bowker

Former Senior Research Scientist CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory (CANMET-MTL)

"The Gleeble is one of the most heavily used machines at our lab... We have used and continue to use it for a broad range of thermo-mechanical simulation procedures. These include: welding applied to shipbuilding, marine materials, offshore structures and pipelines; compression testing to characterize the flow stress behavior of steels and aluminum alloys: and in situ melting and solidification to understand the effects of residuals on hot ductility."

Damien Fabrègue

The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (National Institute of Applied Science) de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

"...this is the only piece of equipment that I can do everything with. I can always do what I want. It may take some time to optimize the work, but in the end, you can always run the experiment or do the simulation that you wanted to do."

Dr. Mahesh Chaturvedi, Ph.D., FASM

University of Manitoba, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

“We want to understand what the fundamental causes for thermo-mechanical fatigue are, so we use the Gleeble to apply load and temperature, sometimes in sync and sometimes out of sync. The Gleeble can keep going for days, executing the same program again and again... it gives us excellent reproducibility.”

Dr. Hans Peter Schmitz

ThyssenKrupp Stahl

“ In our labs, we do physical simulation… We try to reproduce as precisely as possible what is going on in the actual production lines. If you do it very carefully, you can transfer the result into the production lines, and you can use the results for building up numerical models."

Dr. Hirowo Suzuki

Nippon Steel (retired)

“In my opinion, Dynamic Systems is the top company in this kind of test equipment… worldwide.”

Dr. Leijun Li

Utah State University

"On the Gleeble we can not only control all the mechanical properties, but we’re in command of the thermal properties and the atmosphere. With the Gleeble, we can do complicated applications, watch what is happening, see the effect of temperature, and know how much energy is going in. It would take a lot more time and money to do it with equipment other than the Gleeble."

Dr. David Matlock

Colorado School of Mines

"Flexibility is the key to our extensive use of the Gleeble. It helps us to get maximum productivity out of the work we do."

Dr. Brian Damkroger

Los Alamos National Laboratory

"Only the Gleeble is fast enough to allow us to physically simulate the thermal profile of electron beam welding”

Tom Schambron

Bluescope Steel

"…world research and innovation are cornerstones of our business - the Gleeble is key to meeting the objectives of BlueScope. It assists in product development and improvement—such as trialling new steel grades, processing parameters, and so forth—and in tracking and solving of quality issues."