Founded on September 26, 1958.
Its basic research trend is studying hydrodynamical, heat-and-mass transfer and crystallization processes during alloy preparation, treatment and solidification under physical and chemical influences; developing technological fundamentals for producing novel materials and high-grade metals.
Principal R&D activities of the Institute address the following subjects:
- studying the liquid state of multi-component alloys, interaction of melts with soluble and insoluble solid, liquid and gas reagents; improving the existing foundry alloys and developing new ones, using integrated and sparing alloying, modifying, dispersion hardening; producing functional layers of alloys of different compositions;
- investigating physico-chemical, heat-and-mass transfer processes and their effect on metalware characteristics resulting from melt trearment with concentrated power sources;
- studying the effect of the intensity of controlled action of thermal and electromagnetic fields on hydrodynamic, heat-and-mass transfer and crystallization processes during alloy formation and solidification in molds and crystallizing pans;
- working out scientific principles of high-efficiency devices to monitor and control processes of high-grade metal production; this ensures a signisicant rise in productivity, reduction in material input and power consumption, better environment safety and work conditions.
Generally recognized are Institute’s achievements in the theory of graphite formation in modified cast irons; studies of the thermodynamics of forming iron-based metal systems; use of external influences on liquid and solidifying metal; studies of physico-chemical phenomena during alloy modifying and alloying; development of novel processes of steel pouring and producing high-grade ingots and castings; production of advanced cast materials; studies of physico-chemical processes kinetics in metals under the action of high-concentration power sources; mechanics of liquid and solidifying alloys and melt magnetodynamics.
New grades of high-strength and special cast irons for various purposes, cast wear-resistant and composite materials, steels with carbonitride strengthening, developed by the Institute, have been videly commercialized. Technological processes of centrifugal casting under flux for critical parts, cast iron smelting in electric furnaces, lost-foam and lost-wax methods, two-layer casting, melt treatment with immersed plasma jet, electron-beam melting of complex alloys, casting under low regulated pressure are efficiently used in many industries. Institute’s specialists were the first to produce magnetodynamic units for dosed alloy pouring and systems of continuous temperature control for liquid metal in metallurgical facilities. Researchers of the Institute have secured over 3 thousand patents and author's certificates for inventions, issued dozens of science monographs. The Institute is the publisher of three R&D journals. The developments of its scientists and engineers were awarded with five Soviet State Prizes and five Ukraine State Prizes in Science and Engineering, four Prizes of USSR Council of Ministers, six NAS commemorative prizes.
