Dissemination and impact
Dissemination and Impact were important aspects of the DARE project.
This page lists some of our conferences, workshops, and other impact activities.
- Final conference
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"Alloy Design - A Resource Efficient Approach 4"
11/12 February 2020, Halifax Hall, Sheffield
In recent years, alloy design has moved from the informed trial and error approach to one of sophisticated computational alloy and process design.
The EPSRC funded program “Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency” (DARE) held its final conference in Sheffield, explaining how it is contributing towards a resource-efficient and low-carbon economy to reduce its reliance on strategic metals and minimise waste through the development of new metal alloys.
Our final symposium was held over two days and gave a snapshot of state-of-the-art resource-efficient alloy design, covering the following topics:
- Alloy design from first principals through to experimental validation
- Resource-efficient high strength, formable alloys
- Resource-efficient net shape manufacturing technologies
- Processing recycled alloys to useful products.
Speakers included senior academics and early career researchers involved in the Project plus guest academic and industry speakers. A big thank-you to all who participated to make this a successful final conference.
Download the Final Conference programme (PDF, 953KB)
- Symposium 2017
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"Alloy Design - A Resource Efficient Approach 3"
7/8 September 2017, Rolls Royce Learning & Development Centre, Derby
Our third annual symposium took place over two days and was hosted by one of our industry partners at the Rolls-Royce Learning & Development Centre, Derby.
The programme included presentations from leading Materials Science academics, PhD students and researchers involved in DARE research, plus industry speakers.
A huge thanks to our hosts for helping us to organise such a successful workshop and to our tour guide in the Rolls Royce Heritage Museum.
Download the Symposium 2017 programme (PDF, 296KB)
- Symposium 2016
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DARE Annual Symposium 2016
1 September 2016, The University of Sheffield
The one-day event had a mixture of presentations by DARE academic and industry partners, plus guest speakers from throughout Europe.
The presentations focused on the challenges faced by academics and industry, when trying to design new alloys with minimum material waste and less dependence on rare earth additions, whilst retaining their strength and resistance to wear and corrosion.
The Symposium was well attended by UK and International academic and industry delegates and all agreed that the event provided an interesting mix of high-level talks. A big thank you to our speakers and delegates who attended the event.
Download the Workshop programme (PDF, 328KB)
- Materials Life Cycle Analysis Workshop
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Materials Life Cycle Analysis Workshop
22 April 2016, The University of Sheffield
Academic and industry delegates from across Europe came together for the Materials Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) Workshop; a one-day event to discuss current and future trends of LCA, and how it can aid decision making to achieve resource efficiency and sustainability.
Held at The University of Sheffield, the event was jointly organised between the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) and the EPSRC funded projects “Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency” (DARE) and “Substitution and Sustainability in Functional Materials and Devices” (SUbST), and included discussions on major materials innovation projects and real industry cases.
Louis Brimacombe, Head of Environmental Technology at Tata Steel, gave the keynote presentation explaining the role LCA has in understanding the benefits of a circular economy, where not only environmental considerations but also the social and economic performance of a material are crucial for making sustainable decisions.
He said “Life cycle assessment is core in achieving sustainability across supply chains. LCA not only helps industry make informed decisions but identifies where we can improve resource efficiency, sustainability and circular economy.”
The afternoon session focused on group discussions to determine key issues surrounding LCA and potential new concepts to take forward, including: why the current materials life cycle is not sustainable; how science and research can help to make it more sustainable in the future; the stakeholders who should be involved and the support and resources required to achieve this.
Professor Lenny Koh, AREC and event organiser said: “This event has shown the evidence on the important role and influence of supply chain LCA in resource efficiency and sustainability of materials supply chains in flagship projects including DARE, SUBST, and SIMULIFE. LCA must be designed into any new materials or new products/services development stage to search for the most sustainable option before scale-up. For existing materials and products/services, their life cycle must be continuously assessed through LCA.”
Download the Workshop programme (PDF, 96KB)
- Inaugural Workshop
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Inaugural Workshop
3 September 2015 - The Ridge, Sheffield
The Dare project's inaugural workshop was attended by national and international supporters, including academics, students and representatives from industry partners.
Presentations were given by DARE partners plus guest speakers Professor Claire Davis, Tata Steel Professor at WMG, University of Warwick and Professor Stewart Williams, Director of the Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre at Cranfield University.
The day focused on the Project’s research plans and explained how the project aims to contribute towards a resource-efficient and low-carbon economy by working with partners in the metals industry to reduce their reliance on strategic metals and to minimise waste through the development of new metal alloys.
A big thank you to all those who participated and attended.
Download the Workshop porgramme (PDF, 354KB)
- Impact Initiatives
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Project X
Two of our key pathways to impact related to resource efficiency and sustainability plus the development of highly skilled researchers.
With this in mind, the DARE Programme introduced an initiative entitled “Project X“. This enabled early career researchers involved in the Project to pitch a research idea linked to one of the themes in our Research Programme, which would enable them to broaden their skills base and help them to become ambassadors for resource efficiency and sustainability in research.
On approval of their project by a panel of academic and industry partners, they were awarded funds from the consumables and travel budget to run their own mini-project, helping them to develop skills in project management and to move towards becoming an independent researcher.
Projects included:
- Receiving further training to combine micro and macro-scale modelling methods and apply this new knowledge in the development of new resource-efficient magnesium alloys;
- Development of new resource-efficient steel and magnesium alloys that are less reliant on Rare Earths by using other elements not used in the day to day research of the DARE Programme;
- Research into resource-efficient alloys for fusion reactors both at the nano scale and at industrial scale;
- Implement hybrid Life Cycle Assessment methodology to new alloys developed within the DARE Steel and Magnesium research streams and develop an outreach tool for schools based on Life Cycle assessment.
- Lifecycle City
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Lifecycles City: SCEnATAR is a sustainable city game powered by Augmented Reality (AR) technology for use on a mobile device, which aims to raise awareness about environmental, economic and social impacts through the construction, maintenance and upgrading of a city.
The game will allow players to build a city and will measure the CO₂ equivalent plus other factors such as health, education & happiness, as each item is developed; the lower the CO₂ equivalent the more currency will be available for the next stage of development of the city.
The game is meant to be used as a discussion tool by schools and other educators in conjunction with other learning resources about Life Cycle Assessment and Resource Efficiency.
Further downloads:
- LifeCycle CityPoster (PDF, 652KB)
- Tips for playing Lifecycle City (PDF, 540KB)
- DARE LCA Report – Mg (PDF, 979KB)
- DARE LCA Report – Steel (PDF, 1151KB)
- Spottheatom (PDF, 512KB)
Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency (DARE)
Addressing future resource challenges for alloys in manufacturing.