Prometey FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS. Deputy Director General S. A.

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1 FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS Prometey STATE RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ST. PETERSBURG Deputy Director General S. A. Zakharov 2012

2 2 FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROMETEY Established in 1939 Armour steels for tanks, ships and aircraft 1939 Hull steels for fleet 1947 Structural materials for power engineering 1956 High-strength shipbuilding titanium and aluminium alloys 1956 Nonmetallic and functional materials Materials used for hydrocarbon production and refining Establishment of scientific and technological centre for development of structural nanomaterials 2008

3 Total employment is about 1500 people 23 doctors of science 135 candidates of science Employment and scientific potential Management Scientific officers Workers Service staff R&D staff 34% 28% 15% 11% 12% CRISM Prometey academic council is entitled to confer a doctorate and professor s rank. CRISM Prometey in collaboration with the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University and the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University is involved in programmes for training graduate engineers. 3

4 4 Steels cold-resistant heat-resistant Light and non-ferrous titanium-base aluminium-base copper-base Nonmetallic and composite materials Functional materials Nanomaterials development of new materials, manufacturing process and quality control methods development of methods and tools for materials joining, surface treatment expert examination of projects, selection of materials meeting operating conditions, including extreme ones prediction of serviceability and life time of materials diagnostics of structures in service, development of methods and means of failure protection testing and certification of materials designer s supervision

5 5 STRUCTURAL STEELS HIGH-STRENGTH COLD-RESISTANT WELDABLE STEELS low-alloy nitrogen containing corrosion-resistant nonmagnetic cast economically alloyed cast corrosion-resistant multilayer HIGH-STRENGTH HEAT-RESISTANT STEELS heat-resistant radiation-resistant corrosion-resistant high-temperature with special magnetic and electric properties

6 6 WELDING CONSUMABLES AND WELDING OF STRUCTURAL STEELS Welding consumables (electrodes, wire, fluxes) low-carbon consumables for welding of low- and medium-carbon steels alloyed consumables for welding of low- and mediumalloy steels high-alloy consumables for welding of special steels consumables for anticorrosion and wear-resistant cladding Welding processes nonconsumable electrode arc welding with preheated additional wire (automatic, manual) consumable electrode welding (manual, submerged arc automatic, gas-shielded automatic) pulsed arc consumable electrode welding electron-beam welding laser welding explosive welding

7 LIGHT AND NON-FERROUS ALLOYS Titanium alloys wrought cast Aluminium alloys hardenable by heat treatment unhardenable by heat treatment bimetals 7

8 8 NONMETALLIC COMPOSITES high-strength syntactic foams high-strength glass-reinforced plastics antifriction carbon-reinforced plastics multilayer macroheterogeneous hybrid composite materials vibration-absorbing materials neutron-absorbing materials

9 9 FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS WITH SPECIAL PHYSICOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES vibration damping materials antifriction materials magnetically soft materials paramagnetic materials amorphous catalytic materials protective hybrid materials

10 10 METHODS AND TOOLS OF CORROSION PROTECTION OF STRUCTURES ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION PROTECTION cathodic protection systems for hull structures sacrificial protection systems for inner surfaces

11 SURFACE TREATMENT METHODS AND TOOLS CORROSION, EROSION, WEAR-RESISTANT COATINGS gas-thermal, thermomecanical detonation microarc oxidation paints and varnishes HARDENING OF PRODUCTS AND STRUCTURES laser hardening cladding of high-strength materials 11

12 12 NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION METHODS Radiographic examination Ultrasonic testing Liquid-penetrant examination and tightness testing Gas tightness examination Magnetic powder examination

13 13 PREDICTION OF MATERIALS SERVICEABILITY AND LIFE TIME INVESTIGATION OF COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS Spectral and chemical analysis of materials including data on microimpurities Comprehensive investigations into physicomechanical properties, structural analysis, continuity and thickness examination of materials and welded joints Investigations for conformance to the requirements of technical regulatory documents (GOST, specs, foreign standards). The richest collection of standard composition specimens in the CIS is used Certification of pure metals including rare and precious ones

14 14 PREDICTION OF MATERIALS SERVICEABILITY AND LIFE TIME CORROSION TESTS OF STEELS, ALLOYS, WELDED JOINTS, METALLIC PROTECTIVE COATINGS Determination of electrochemical behaviour of materials in different environments at elevated temperature and pressure Testing of materials for susceptibility to general, contact, intergranular, pitting, crevice and other kinds of corrosion in atmospheric conditions and in electrolytic solutions. Testing for corrosion cracking with determination of threshold values for cracking resistance and crack propagation rate

15 15 PREDICTION OF MATERIALS SERVICEABILITY AND LIFE TIME STUDY OF RADIATION INFLUENCE UPON PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOUR OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS Study of irradiated materials structure Study of irradiated materials base characteristics In-pile tests for creep, creep-rupture and cyclic strength in coolant medium Prediction and life tests of NPP materials. Tests are carried out in a specialized complex which incorporates 16 bioshielded hot cells.

16 PREDICTION OF MATERIALS SERVICEABILITY AND LIFE TIME TEMPERATURE LIFE TESTING OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES Full-scale thermal shock testing of structural elements Hydrocyclic and thermocyclic testing of large-sized structures under an internal pressure of up to 600 MPa Full-scale high-temperature testing of blade specimens for gas-turbine engines in various environments Fatigue testing of gears Corrosion, corrosion-mechanical, creeprupture and creep high-temperature tests in liquid-metal, aqueous and gaseous environments Thermal fatigue testing over a wide range of temperatures Low- and high-cycle fatigue tests in air and corrosion environments over a wide range of temperatures 16

17 17 PREDICTION OF MATERIALS SERVICEABILITY AND LIFE TIME INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF MATERIALS AND WELDED STRUCTURES Bench tests, physicomechanical investigations Expert examination of structures Determination of base characteristics of a metal Prediction of fracture Processing methods of increasing structures reliability and life time Data processing programmes Fracture simulation models Finite element method programmes. Stress analysis

18 18 CRISM PROMETEY is a holder of: Patent activities 190 PATENTS IN FORCE In 2011: - 32 inventions were filed; - 52 patents were issued.

19 19 Cooperation EXEMPLIFIED FOR THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY CRISM Prometey Operating conditions Behavior of materials and semi-finished products Design offices Fracture statistics Structural diagnostics Service life evaluation Fracture protection measures Manufacturing technology Designer s supervision Welding technologies and inspection methods Semi-finished products Shipyards Metallurgical plants Consumers

20 20 Consumer industries Shipbuilding Mechanical engineering Motor car construction Oil production Oil refining Chemical industry Pulp and paper industry Biology Medicine Food industry Building Monument restoration Municipal services Ecology Nuclear power engineering Radioactive waste utilization Heat power engineering

21 21 International cooperation

22 WE ARE INVITING FOR COOPERATION!

23 FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS Prometey STATE RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 49, Shpalernaya Ul , Saint-Petersburg, Russia Phone: (812) Fax: (812)