The Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center

 

Steel pour in the Foundry Lab of McNutt Hall with the Jacklings camp. Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T

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For member login access, please contact Ann Pennell at: ann.pennell@mst.edu

We also have a page on Missouri S&T’s Scholars’ Mine.


Next PSMRC Meeting

Our Next PSMRC Industry Review Meeting will be held in Rolla, MO at the Missouri S & T Protoplex on Wednesday April 22, 2026.  The IAB Board Meeting will be held on the morning of Thursday April 23, 2026, at the same location: Missouri S & T Protoplex, Rolla, MO


Our new pilot rolling mill

Nucor Tour 2025

PSMRC at AISTech 2024

Mansfield Tour at AISTech 2024

AIST AIME Hunt -Kelley Award

PSMRC Fall Meeting Dinner 2025

PSMRC Spring Meeting Dinner 2024

Missouri S&T student awarded national metalcasting scholarship

 

PSMRC Fall Meeting 2023

Participants in our August 17, 2022 PSMRC Brainstorming Meeting at US Steel Training Center

Participants at our Combined Live + Virtual Meeting on December 1st, 2021.

Participants at our Combined Live + Virtual Meeting on April 28th, 2021


Greetings and welcome to the Members’ site for the Kent D. Peaslee Steel Manufacturing Research Center (PSMRC).  

Project List

Current Projects

  • Refractory Wear Mechanisms
  • Heat Treatment Optimization
  • Continuous Casting Mold Simulator & Flux Characterization
  • Bainite Evolution and Control Hot Rolling
  • Clean Steel, Inclusion Engineering & Ca Treatment
  • Scale Formation and Scale Removal
  • Castability of Medium Carbon Boron Titanium Steels
  • EM Coaxial and Optical Fiber Distributed Temperature & Strain Measurement

Past Projects

  • Mold Flux Reaction Suppression
  • High Temperature Optical Fiber Sensing
  • Peritectic Behavior Measurement and Prediction
  • Porosity Centerline Segregation & Ductility
  • Interactions with Glazed Refractories & Tundish Lining
  • Hot Working Process Optimization
  • Ti-Nb-V Microalloy Precipitation, Hot Ductility and Microstructure
  • Non-Metallic Inclusion Engineering in Steels
  • Effect of Microstructural Features on Steel Machinability
  • Next Generation Slag Line Refractory Development
  • Nozzle Clogging and Bias Flow in Continuous Casting
  • Ladle/Refractory Interactions in ULC/IF Steel
  • Mold Flux Morphology and Stability in Continuous Casting
  • Grain Refinement During Solidification of Austenitic Steels
  • Hot Working Modeling & Simulation of Rounds, Slabs & Beams
  • 3rd Generation Advanced High Strength Steel Development

Member Companies

New Patent Issued

Additional Information

If you are a PSMRC member and would like to gain access to the website please contact Denise Eddings at eddings@mst.edu .   To access member only areas of this website, click on the “MEMBER LOGIN link near the top of this page and enter your username and password.  

If you are not a member, but would like to learn more about the PSMRC, please contact:

Dr. Ronald J. OMalley
Iverson Chair Professor & Director PSMRC
Materials Science & Engineering
Missouri University of Science & Technology
Office: 573 341-7683

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