Biography

Augusto Di Gianfrancesco has been employed at the Centro Sviluppo Materiali (CSM) since February 1983 until December 2014, as a Senior Metallurgist and Project Leader for High Temperature Materials. He was responsible for R&D activities on steels and superalloys for high temperature applications in power generation plants. He was also a member of Management Committee of EU Program COST 522-536, Co-founder of the European Creep Collaborative Committee (ECCC) and Co-founder of the Italian Working Group on Creep Resistant Materials. He is an author and co-author of more than 300 technical reports and more than 100 papers presented at national and international conferences. Currently, he is Materials and Technologies Consultant and Chairman of the ECCC. He is the Editor of the “Materials for ultra-supercritical and advanced ultra-supercritical power plants”, published by Elsevier in 2016.

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Research Interest

Products development: forged, cast, rolled, power metallurgy, Products qualification, Mechanical testing: tensile, impact, creep, fatigue, hardness, Microstructural analyses: light microscopy, Scanning and Transmission Electron, Microscopy, Coating technologies: PVD, CVD, PTA, APS, D-Gun, Welding technologies, NDT control, Project management