Light Metals Best Paper Award

The award was established and is administered by the Light Metals Section. It recognizes the best paper from the Light Metals Proceedings of the previous year’s Conference of Metallurgists.

This award is not open to nominations from the public. The award is administered by the committee of the Light Metals section of MetSoc.

2022 Award Recipient

LASER POWDER BED PROCESSING OF ALUMINUM POWDERS CONTAINING IRON AND NICKEL ADDITIONS
Authors: J. Hierlihy, I. W. Donaldson, M. Brochu, G. A. W. Sweet and D. P. Bishop.

COM 2021 Light Metal Symposia, “Advances in Additive Manufacturing of Light Metals” and “Light Metals in Harsh Environments”:

2021 Award Recipient

The Critical Effect of Powder Attributes on the Optimized Parameters and the Tensile Properties in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) of AlSil0Mg Alloy

Authors: P. Wang, A. Salandari-Rabori, Q. Dong and V. Fallah.

2020 Award

No award recipient

2019 Award Recipients

“Effect of Alternate Drawing on the Ductility of Drawn Wires for Aluminum Wire Harness” Authors: Chihiro Takuma, Kazunari Yoshida, Tokai University
Published in the Proceedings of Materials Science & Technology 2018