02/26 - TMS 2004 Annual Meeting & Exhibition Coming to Charlotte

Pittsburgh, PA – The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s (TMS) Annual Meeting & Exhibition is coming to the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, NC, March 14-18, 2004.

Over 3,500 professional engineers and researchers will come from 59 countries to attend the 2004 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in order to expand their knowledge through the over 1900 individual presentation that are scheduled in 54 technical symposia. The program will be comprised of six primary tracks including:

• Advanced Materials
• Electronic Materials
• Extraction and Processing
• Light Metals
• Micro-and Nanoscale Technologies
• Physical Metallurgy
• Plus a special Hot-Topic Track—Building MSE Synergies.

TMS also is pleased to announce a TMS 2004 program special entitled: Materials Analysis: Understanding the Columbia Disaster. This Wednesday afternoon session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn directly from the engineers and scientists from the Materials and Processes (M&P) Team formed by NASA. This team supported the Columbia reconstruction efforts, provided factual data through materials analysis, and conducted experiments to uncover and validate the root cause of the accident. Discussions in this session will include:

• “The Materials and Processes Team Role in Columbia’s Recovery, Reconstruction and Analysis”, Rick Russell, United Space Alliance, Kennedy Space Center, FL
• "Fracture of Aluminum Structural Materials", Dr. Robert Piascik and Dr. Stephen Smith, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
• “Failure Analysis of A286 Carrier Panel Fasteners”, Tom Collins, Boeing Huntington Beach, CA and Rick Russell, United Space Alliance, Kennedy Space Center, FL
• Analytical Tools and Techniques” Steve McDanels, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL
• “Wing Leading Edge Debris Analysis”, Dr. Sandeep Shah and Greg Jerman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
• “Failure Analysis Integration: The Materials and Processes Team’s Role in the Overall Investigation and Conclusions”, Dr. Brian Mayeaux and Julie Kramer-White, NASA Johnson Space Center and Rick Russell, United Space Alliance, Kennedy Space Center, FL

One of the busiest locations at the TMS 2004 Annual Meeting & Exhibition will be the exhibit hall. There, attendees can view over 160 exhibiting company displays that showcase latest in metals and materials innovations in a ideal networking environment. The TMS 2004 Annual Meeting Exhibition is a primary source for practical, problem-solving solutions for today’s production, processing and research challenges! This year expanded technologies will be showcased in the exhibition.

To find out more about the TMS 2004 Annual Meeting, please contact TMS Meeting Services, 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086 USA Phone: 1-800-759-4TMS or 724-776-9000 ext. 243 Fax: 724-776-3770, E-mail: mtgserv@tms.org. To view the complete advance program visit the conference web site at http://www.tms.org/AnnualMeeting.html.

TMS is an international professional engineering society promoting the global science and engineering profession concerned with minerals, metals, and materials and is headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.