The Institute of Materials Modification and Modeling (IMMM) was established by Professor Jiansheng Pan, a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. IMMM can be dated back to the teaching and research group of heat treatment of metallic materials, which was set up in the 1950s. Now IMMM has 6 full/associate professors, 5 assistant professors/engineers, 5 laboratory technicians/research support staffs, 4 postdocs and 30 graduate students. With the key numerical simulation technology for coupling multiple fields applied in the complex heat treatment process (such as the temperature, phase transformation, stress/strain, chemical concentration, fluid, electromagnetism, etc.), IMMM focuses on the development of innovate heat treatment process, computer-aided designing of heat treatment equipment, intelligent control in heat treatment process. The research work in IMMM has been extended to multiscale simulation of the mechanical and phase transformational behavior of materials，high entropy alloy and additive manufacturing. IMMM has won 5 national, provincial and ministerial awards, published more than 150 papers in important academic journals, nearly 100 authorized invention patents, independently developed the first heat treatment simulation software in China. IMMM has undertaken a number of 973, 863, major national special projects and national key R&D projects, and the research results have been applied to energy equipment, transportation, engineering machinery, aerospace and other national strategic fields.

Main Research Fields:

Numerical simulation and system development of heat treatment

Designing and optimization of heat treatment process and equipment

Multiscale simulation of microstructure and mechanical behavior of materials

High entropy alloy structure and properties

R&D of zirconium alloys for nuclear use

Titanium laser additive manufacturing