Guy has been working for Sirris since 1996, helping companies with metal selection and heat treatment. He is also responsible for the entire quality assurance of the test lab, which has been accredited since 2003. He mainly works on failure analysis (fractures, corrosion and wear) on metal components.
Over the last few years he was closely involved in innovative projects concerning laser hardening, cleaning and coating of steel and finally deep cooling of tool steel.
Guy is a metallurgical engineer who worked as a researcher at UGent and was previously employed in the quality department of a Flemish company producing continuous roll forming steel profiles.
Publications
- Improve quality of industrial knives through heat treatments
- Improve quality of industrial knives through material selection
- ECHT QDE 2021 with a focus on distortion
- Developments in the use of cold work steels for punching applications
- A first step towards higher quality industrial blades
- How to increase the uptime of industrial blades and avoid shutdowns
- ECHT 2020 focuses on carbon in steel
- ECHT 2020 focuses on carburizing, carbonitriding and carbon-based surface engineering
- Reduction of particulates on car brakes
- New aluminium alloy for wheels