Micronsight LLC

MT@Micro is a novel technology which can help the R&D material scientist in the aerospace industry to design and invent novel strong and light enough materials by correlation of the microstructural features and the material properties. This will save huge amount of time, cost, and expenses for the Aerospace manufacturer companies. MT@Micro can help us to come up with more sophisticated models with a smaller number of testing. This process is extremely expensive right now, we can save a lot of money and time, Dr. Iuliana Cernatescu, the Senior R&D engineer in Pratt&Whitney said.

Conventionally, the microstructure to mechanical properties relationship is derived by performing microstructural characterization tests that reveal the characteristics of microstructure and mechanical tests that reveal mechanical properties separately, and then linking them with empirical theories. Such an approach does not involve the measurement of local deformation, and therefore has many drawbacks. This approach requires several trial and errors for the verification of the models which not only makes the process of material design and invention long and expensive, but also leaves an uncertainty on the predictability of the product performance and life cycle. This process will impose huge temporal and monetary cost on the aerospace company in the process of material design and development. MT@Micro can potentially resolve this issue. MT@Micro will provide the R&D material scientists with high quality material microstructural data which is not achievable in the current state of art. It will help the scientists in Aerospace industry who need experimentally measured local deformation to directly compare their predictions to validate models/theories.