Background
This symposium aims to continue the highly successful first
and second International Conference on Magnesium held in Beijing,
China, in 2004 and 2006. Due to its low-density and high-specific
strength and stiffness, and many attractive characteristics,
magnesium is increasingly used in automotive, aerospace, computers,
and communication and consumer industries. However, significant
technological challenges remain; and magnesium is not a major
structural material for many applications. In recent years,
many new alloys and innovative applications have been developed
around the world. China has become the largest magnesium producer,
accounting for about 70 percent in the world magnesium production.
The symposium will provide a forum for exchange and discussion
of new ideas and the latest achievements related to magnesium.
A further objective of the conference is to highlight the global
and regional trends crucial to future research fields and potential
applications. It also offers the opportunity to explore the
rapidly growing Chinese magnesium industry and a tour of local
manufacturing enterprises.
Topics
The symposium is soliciting abstracts on all aspects of magnesium
technology, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Primary production and market
- Recycling and environmental issues
- Alloy development
- Phase transformations
- Manufacturing processes
- Mechanical and physical properties
- Cast and wrought alloys
- Welding and joining
- Corrosion and surface finishing
- Applications and research programs
- Integrated computational materials engineering
Invited speakers
S.Agnew (Univ. of Virginia, USA): Deformation
Mechanisms; J.Allison (Ford Motor Co., USA):
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering; W.Ding
(Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China): Alloy Development and Applications;
Z-X. Guo (Univ. of London, United Kingdom): Mg-Based
Energy Materials; E.-H. Han (Chinese Academy
of Sciences, China): Corrosion and Coatings; M.
Horstemeyer (Mississippi State Univ., USA): Computational
Materials; N. Hort (GKSS-Magnesium Research
Center, Germany): Magnesium Processing; S. Kamado
(Nagaoka Univ. of Technology, Japan): Japanese Developments;
B. Liu (Tsinghua Univ., China): Solidification
Modeling; Z.-K. Liu (Pennsylvania State
Univ., USA): Computational Thermodynamics; S.
Long (Chongqing Univ., China): Processing Technologies
Development and Applications in China; J. F. Nie
(Monash Univ., Australia): Phase Transformation and Creep;
M. Pekguleryuz (McGill Univ., Canada): Alloy
Development; P. Prangnell (Univ. of Manchester,
United Kingdom): Grain Refinement; A. Sachdev
(General Motors Corp., USA): Automotive Applications in North
America; W. Shi (China Magnesium Center,
China): China Magnesium R&D; S. Schumann
(Volkswagen, Germany): Automotive Applications in Europe;
K. Shin (Seoul National Univ., Korea): Korean
Developments; and D. St. John (Univ. of
Queensland, Australia): Australian Developments.
Publication
All accepted papers will be published by SCI journals
Symposium Organizers
Alan A. Luo
General Motors R&D Center, Materials and Processes Laboratory,
MC 480-106-212, 30500 Mound Rd., Warren, MI 48090, USA
Tel 586-986-8303, Fax 586-986-9204, alan.luo@gm.com
Fusheng Pan
Chongqing University, National Engineering Research Center for
Magnesium Alloys, No. 174, Shazheng St., Shapingba District, Chongqing
400044, P.R. China
Tel 86-23-6511-2635, Fax 86-23-6510-2821, fspan@cqu.edu.cn
Karl U. Kainer
GKSS Research Centre, Magnesium Innovation Centre, Max-Planck-Str.,
D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany
Tel 49-4152-87-2542, Fax 49-4152-87-2636, karl.kainer@gkss.de
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