Centre for Automotive Materials and Corrosion

Advancing the automotive industry

The Centre for Automotive Materials and Corrosion’s (CAMC) research focuses on materials engineering including themes like light-weight material systems, material degradation and protection, and joining issues as they apply to automotive material innovations.

With a wide range of instruments and capabilities, CAMC is also able to tackle challenges facing industries like pipelines, sensors and biomaterials.

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Our research

The CAMC researches materials for automotive, industrial and consumer applications.

Particular focus is on the development of high strength steel and aluminum alloys intended for automotive weight reduction and safety applications. A second emphasis is placed on corrosion and its prevention.

This is done by understanding microstructure-property relationships, metal forming and joining techniques, electrochemistry, corrosive environment and fatigue.

CAMC grew out of earlier groups and grants, including the IAMI and Walter Smeltzer Corrosion Laboratory.

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Student success

Faculty, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students work together in CAMC resulting in high-level graduates with fundamental and applied knowledge of materials, testing and design.