TOPICS

The conference will specifically include no less than 11 spotlight symposia, focusing on the various aspects of interstitially alloyed ferrous alloys :

  1. Alloy Development and Processing
  2. Applications and Performance (forming, stamping, cutting, fatigue, wear resistance …)
  3. Atomic-scale Phenomena
  4. Corrosion Challenges (scientific and industrial, such as e.g. met in the automotive, chemical and off-shore industry)
  5. Global Requirements (sustainability, saving recourses)
  6. Mesoscale Phenomena and Microstructures
  7. Physical Metallurgy (texture development, creep cavities at grain boundaries, interaction with microalloying elements …)
  8. Steel Making (including “green steel”)
  9. Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Phase Transformations (simulation and experimental confirmation)
  10. Welding Technologies (practical, technical, metallurgical) including Working Environments and Toxicology (medical)
  11. Quantitative Analysis of Interstitials (Analysis of Low-concentration High-mobility Interstitial Solutes, Internal Friction Techniques, Thermo-electric Effect, Hydrogen Thermal Desorption Analysis …)

The often unusual combination of properties displayed by steels as a result of minor alloying additions of interstitials presents the metals and materials community with new scientific questions, technical difficulties and only partially understood application performances, which are crucial for actually all industries using steels for their products.

Therefore, IAS 2010 intends to be a global forum for the exchange of scientific, production related and technical information on interstitial solutes in all FLAT CARBON STEELS and STAINLESS STEELS and pool their expertise to help answer the questions and concerns of a highly motivated audience of materials scientists and engineers.

IAS will not discriminate at all between R&D ideas (“ideas cannot be confined within procedures”), approaches and achievements, which can be of paramount world-wide industrial interest, if not immediately then in the (near) future.

IAS also addresses the very important issue of work environment safety by demonstrating how welding fumes can harm e.g. steel shop workers and welding technicians over their working life span. These days this issue cannot be ignored anymore.

IAS 2010 is proud to be able to present international renowned keynote speakers to address an intellectual and ready-to-shape-the-future audience. IAS 2010 intends not only to build a forum for and build an alliance with specialists from all over the world and get together international specialists but also to give excellent young scientists a chance to shape their future in an international environment.

IAS 2010 therefore invites industrial professionals as well as top level and ambitioned researchers to present their latest findings. In order to discuss and exchange their knowledge and offer access to newcomers in the research field(s), steel producers and industrial end-users of Interstitially Alloyed Steels to clearly understand the fundamental materials physics and the purely technical aspects.

Therefore, IAS 2010 offers a broad scope of special topics. Consequently, the conference program covers advanced theoretical and practical issues. The new format provides a comprehensive forum in which experts present their latest research results, share and discuss their opinions of the current developments and give an outlook for the future needs.

 
IAS 2010