• Metallurgical alloy design by in-house made models and commercial tools as THERMOCALC®, DICTRA®, JMAtPro®, MATCALC©, etc.,
• “Green field” alloy development from laboratory heats (100kg Vacuum Inductive Melting - VIM and VAR/Pressure Electrical Slag Remelting (PESR), up to 250÷300 kg round ingots), thru by-products by hot/cold rolling at pilot mills and forming/forging machines, up to the industrial scale and in-field application (seamless pipes and tubes, forged components, flat and long products, weld joints),
• Heat treatment design, through in-house (made) thermo-metallurgical models and Continuous Cooling Transformation (CCT), Time-Temperature-Transformation (TTT) and Time-Temperature-Precipitation (TTP) diagrams,
• Heat treatment set-up and performing, in a wide range of temperatures and atmospheres,
• Process simulation by commercial tools and in-house (made) models (e.g. rolling, forging, piercing, forming, heat treatment, casting). Both conventional casting techniques and Directional Solidified and Single Crystal are techniques available at CSM Pilot Plant Unit,
• Mechanical and technological testing (small- and medium-scale): uniaxial tensile, toughness and impact toughness, hardness (up to 750°C), Low Cycle (LCF) and High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) (at conventional and high frequency regimes), Thermo Mechanical Fatigue (TMF), Fracture Mechanics, etc.