Materials by Design^®

QuesTek empowers innovators by resolving material-based challenges.

Ten years ago, Apple made a decision…to build a dedicated alloy engineering team with a foundation in (QuesTek’s) computational and systems alloy design.

REPORT ON 2022 TMS CONFERENCE PLENARY ADDRESS JOURNAL OF MATERIALS, JUNE 2022

This digital twin of the process can be created and calibrated with very few empirical samples...thereby saving months and even years of development time as well as extensive, costly materials testing.

Race Engine Technology, 2023

QuesTek’s ICME approach has dramatically streamlined (our materials) investigations and changed the way we think about materials development.

Daido Steel, Corporate R&D Center, 2022

QuesTek's patented alloys have been optimized to produce desirable properties unique to the AM process.

Metal AM, 2022

The idea (Materials Concurrency) is to accelerate the adoption of new materials and processes- helping bridge the gap between materials science and part design.

Tesla Materials Applications team, Elektrek, 2021

QuesTek improved (AFRL’s) understanding of the micro- and macro-structure level variability… to advance the accuracy of modelling and simulation for AM metal.

1st Place citation, AFRL Additive Manufacturing Modelling Challenge, thru America Makes, 2021

QuesTek’s Ferrium® M54 steel progressed from clean-sheet design to flight-qualified, production…parts (in a fractional) timeframe typical for flight-critical components.

NIST Materials Genome Initiative Report, 2018

QuesTek considerably accelerates the development of novel alloys, enabling customers from a range of industries to reduce the cost of testing and deploying new alloys by millions of dollars.

Illinois Science and Technology Coalition Roadmap, 2014

QuesTek supports Materials Genome Initiative… Proven computational approach to materials design and development yields rapid results.

Electronic Products, 2011

SERDP has estimated that QuesTek’s design and development of Ferrium® S53 steel saved approximately $50M.

US Strategic Environmental R&D Program, 2008 Pollution Prevention of the Year Award (to QuesTek), 2008

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