Ultra-fine Structured Steels
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Chairmen: E. Essadiqi, J. Thomson and M. Militzer
A class of high-strength steels currently under development features fine-scale microstructural constituents,
in the size range of single microns to tens of nanometers. The ultra-fine grain ferritic steels are best known
but more complex microstructures that exploit transformation products, inclusions, precipitates and textural
features are also emerging. These developments are enabled by new steel processing approaches including
solidification control, rapid heat treatment, heavy warm deformation and powder metallurgy. Research in
this area is proceeding worldwide, notably through national programs in China, Japan and Korea to develop
a new generation of resource-efficient high strength structural steels. Invited keynote and contributed
papers will cover the science and engineering aspects of structurally refined steels. Topics will include:
- Alloy and microstructure design
- Mechanical properties
- Production routes to ultra-fine microstructures
- Deformation behavior and structure-property relationships
- Computational and analytical modeling
- Joining behavior
- Implications for steelmaking, steel mill design and production economics
- Implications for design of steel structures.
For more information, please contact:
Elhachmi Essadiqi
CANMET, Materials Technology Laboratory
568 Booth Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0G1
Tel.: (613) 992-2780
Fax: (613) 992-8735
E-mail: essadiqi@nrcan.gc.ca
Sponsored by: Iron & Steel Section of The Metallurgical Society of CIM
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