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ALUMINUM INDUSTRY LEADERS DISCUSS TECHNOLOGY AT 2005 TMS ANNUAL MEETING
Plenary Session Assembles Leaders from World's Top Aluminum Companies

SOCIETY COLLABORATION PRODUCES BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS SYMPOSIUM
2005 TMS Annual Meeting Symposium Features Programming by TMS and Biomaterials Societies

TMS REWARDS EARLY MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
TMS Members Who Renew by October 4 Receive $15 Discount

NEW JOINT STUDENT PROGRAM WEB SITE GOES LIVE
Material Advantage Web Site Offers Students Benefits from Three Societies

TMS INTRODUCES LANDMARK PAPER COLLECTIONS
New Books Present the Best of the Best in Metal-Matrix Composites Publications

SUPERALLOYS PROCEEDINGS PAST AND PRESENT AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Superalloys 2004 Attendees Receive Access to this Year’s and Past Years' Proceedings On-Line

SOCIETY-LEVEL AWARDS DEADLINE NEARS
Nominations for TMS Society-Level Awards Accepted through October 31

TMS OFFERS SIX NEW SHORT COURSES
TMS Plans Continuing Education Courses in Conjunction with 2005 TMS Annual Meeting

Plenary Session Assembles Leaders from World's Top Aluminum Companies

Key leaders from the world’s largest aluminum companies have agreed to participate in The Role of Technology in the Global Primary Aluminum Industry Today and in the Future, a plenary session at the 2005 TMS Annual Meeting. During this session, five representatives from primary aluminum operations will discuss technology's current role in the global primary aluminum industry. A discussion-oriented session will follow to provide the audience with an opportunity to ask questions of the five presenters.

“To my knowledge, the top leaders of the five largest aluminum companies have never been gathered together in a session like this before,” said Halvor Kvande, primary organizer for the session. “My main purpose has been to create a very attractive session for the TMS participants, a session that would be of interest to all people from the upstream activities of aluminum production, especially alumina, carbon, and reaction, but also to people from research institutions and universities.”

The symposium will be held on Tuesday, February 15, and will feature the following speakers (in alphabetical order):

Cynthia Carroll
President and CEO of Alcan Primary Metal Group, Canada

Truls Gautesen
President, Hydro Aluminium Primary Metal, Norway

Wayne Hale
Executive Vice President of Alumina and Aluminium, Sual, Russia

Bernt Reitan
VP and President Alcoa Primary Products, USA

Speaker to Be Determined
International Corporation Division of Chalco, Beijing, China

The 2005 TMS Annual Meeting will be held February 13-17 in San Francisco, California. Following the meeting, the presentations are to be published in JOM-e, the on-line-only supplement to JOM.

2005 TMS Annual Meeting Symposium Features Programming by TMS and Biomaterials Societies

At the 2005 TMS Annual Meeting, TMS will join with the Society for Biomaterials and the Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation to present the Biological Materials Science and Engineering Symposium. This symposium is sponsored by the TMS Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee and the new TMS Biomaterials Committee, which held its first symposium, on nanostructured materials for biomedical applications, at the 2004 TMS Annual Meeting.

In addition to more than 50 contributed presentations focusing on the themes of biological materials, biomaterials (bioimplants), and biomimetics, this symposium will feature three well-known and respected leaders in the field of biological materials. Their plenary presentations, described below, will represent cutting-edge progress in this important area of materials application:

Biological and Artificial Attachment Devices: Lessons for Materials Scientists from Flies and Geckos
Eduard Arzt, Max-Planck-Institut for Metals Research and Institut für Metallkunde, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Single-Cell Nanomechanics and Human Disease States
Subra Suresh, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanical Properties of Biological Materials
Julian Vincent, Chair of Biomimetics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, United Kingdom

TMS Members Who Renew by October 4 Receive $15 Discount

Assure continuation of your TMS membership benefits for 2005 and save $15 by renewing your membership at the 2004 rate of $90 before October 4, 2004. Members can renew on-line at this discounted rate through the TMS members-only web site.

We know you will continue to see the value of your affiliation with TMS grow as the Society pursues its goal of providing you with more and more tools with which to achieve your technological and professional goals. Renew today so you can continue access to the electronic and print version of JOM, access to and inclusion in the on-line searchable membership directory, deep discounts on publications that include Journal of Electronic Materials and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A and B, a complimentary subscription to TMS Letters—our new electronic publication, access to a new and improved TMS e-News, complimentary download privileges for the portable document format version of the Principles and Practice of Engineering study guide for professional registration, as well as a continually expanding menu of professional and personal services and benefits from TMS.

Material Advantage Web Site Offers Students Benefits from Three Societies

The web site for the new Material Advantage Student Program, a unified membership program for North American student members of the American Ceramic Society, ASM International, and TMS, is now live. Through this new site, students can access information on student program activities, scholarship opportunities, career resources, student chapters, and information resources available from the three societies. Students can join the Material Advantage Student Program and receive access to all the student resources available on the site for a single membership rate of $25.

International students can still use the student member web page on the TMS site to access information about membership benefits, available academic scholarships and contests, meeting and publications, and opportunities to participate in mentoring programs, as well as to access the TMS student newsletter, Professional Preface.

New Books Present the Best of the Best in Metal-Matrix Composites Publications

TMS has introduced Landmark Papers, a new series of publications designed to provide background in particular areas of the materials science and engineering field. Each volume contains seminal contributions to the literature of the field selected from TMS journals and conference proceedings by a TMS Lead Subject Matter Expert in the field.

Four volumes are now available, covering topics in the field of metal-matrix composites:

• Volume 1: Aluminum Metal-Matrix Composites
• Volume 2: Metal-Matrix Composite Properties
• Volume 3: Titanium Metal-Matrix Composites
• Volume 4: Metal-Matrix Composite Processing

Superalloys 2004 Attendees Receive Access to this Year’s and Past Years' Proceedings On-Line

Every attendee of September’s 10th International Symposium on Superalloys received the Superalloys 2004 proceedings in print and CD-ROM format. This year, TMS is also providing conference attendees with electronic access to earlier published proceedings of the Superalloys symposia dating back to 1968, as well as to all the published proceedings of the Symposium on Superalloys 718, 625, 706, and Derivatives dating back to 1989.

For those who did not attend the meeting, the Superalloys 2004 book and CD set, as well as electronic versions of earlier volumes (paper-by-paper and book-by-book), are available for purchase through the TMS Document Center.

Nominations for TMS Society-Level Awards Accepted through October 31

Materials scientists and engineers may recognize the professional achievements of their colleagues through TMS Society-Level Awards at the 2006 TMS Annual Meeting, to be held March 12-16, 2006, in San Antonio, Texas. TMS Society-Level awards recognize a broad range of accomplishments in the materials community. Nominations for the following TMS awards will be accepted through October 31, 2004:

• Application to Practice Award
• John Bardeen Award
• Bruce Chalmers Award
• Distinguished Service Award
• Educator Award
• Fellow Award
• Robert Lansing Hardy Award
• William Hume-Rothery Award
• Institute of Metals Lecture & Robert Franklin Mehl Award
• Leadership Award
• Champion H. Mathewson Award

TMS Plans Continuing Education Courses in Conjunction with 2005 TMS Annual Meeting

Six short courses on a range of topics will be offered in conjunction with the 2005 TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, to be held February 13-17, 2005 in San Francisco, California. The following courses are scheduled to coincide with the opening of the meeting in February 2005:

Aluminum Smelter Control
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Presented by Mark Taylor, James Metson, John Chen, and Margaret Hyland, Light Metals Research Centre, University of Auckland

Arsenic—Its Processing, Removal, and Stabilization in Non-Ferrous Metal Industry
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Presented by V.”Ram” Ramachandran, Consulting Engineer, and George P. Demopoulos, McGill University

Carbon Nanotubes
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Presented by Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Tománek, Michigan State University

FactSage
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Presented by Arthur Pelton and Christopher Bale, Ecole Polytechnique (University of Montreal)

Integrating Lean and Six Sigma in an Aluminum Smelter
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m-5:00 p.m.
Presented by Keith Sinclair and Rick Phelps, Sinclair Associates Inc.

The Materials Science and Engineering, Industrial Applications, and Processing of Magnesium Products
Saturday, February 12, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Presented by Gerald Cole, retired from Ford Motor Company, and David St. John, Cooperative Research Centre for Cast Metals Manufacturing

For more information on these or other TMS Short Courses, such as the Industrial Aluminum Electrolysis course scheduled for September 2005, please contact Christina Raabe at raabe@tms.org.

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EDITORS' CHOICE

The editors of TMS publications select the must-read papers from the latest editions:

SEPTEMBER JOM: "The China Factor: Aluminum Industry Impact" by Warren H. Hunt, Jr.
The emergence of China as a global economic force has influenced the technical enterprise generally and a number of industries specifically. The aluminum industry is an example, with effects on consumption and demand as well as production and supply. This article reviews these areas from both a historical and future perspective.[READ]

SEPTEMBER JOM: "Kid Geniuses: Fame, Fortune, and Science Fairs" by Maureen Byko
Every year, high-school students are rewarded with substantial sums of money, media attention, and university recruiting usually reserved for athletes by participating in one of several U.S. science competitions. The students who succeed are diverse, so searching for the formula for creating a super-scientist is futile. This feature article introduces the leading science competitions and some of the talented youths who have participated in them.[READ]

SEPTEMBER JOM: "The Continuing Study of Damascus Steel: Bars from the Alwar Armory" by J.D. Verhoeven et al.
This article is a sequel of sorts to the 1998 JOM paper titled "The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades." Because of the continued popularity of the on-line version of this paper, additional experiments were conducted on some three-century old Damascus bars. The experiments lend strong support to the idea that two factors have long inhibited Western bladesmiths from reproducing the patterned Damask steel blades for so many years: the wootz steel ingots from which the blades were made were extremely hot short due to the high phosphorous content; it is necessary to have, in addition to a high carbon level, a low level of carbide-forming elements in the precursor ingots. [READ]

SEPTEMBER METALLURGICAL & MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A: "Coarsening of Al3Sc Precipitates in an Al-0.28 Wt Pct Sc Alloy" by C. Watanabe, T. Kondo, and R. Monzen
The Ostwald ripening of Al3Sc precipitates in an Al-0.28 wt pct Sc alloy during aging at 673, 698, and 723 K has been examined by measuring the average size of precipitates by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the reduction in Sc concentration in the Al matrix with aging time, t, by electrical resistivity.[READ]

SEPTEMBER METALLURGICAL & MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A: "Characterization of the Peritectic Reaction in Medium-Alloy Steel through Microsegregation and Heat-of-Transformation Studies" by B.K. Dhindaw, T. Antonsson, J. Tinoco, and H. Fredriksson
In the present work, the phenomenon of the peritectic reaction was characterized in a medium-alloy steel. Several directional solidification and thermal-analysis experiments were done to investigate the reaction process.[READ]

TMS LETTERS ISSUE 5: "The Effect of Cold Rolling Deformation on the Creep Backstress of INCONEL Alloy 718" by D.S. Dickmann, N.C. Eisinger, and C.J. Boehlert
The 638°C creep backstress of INCONEL® alloy 718 (IN 718) was investigated as a function of cold rolling deformation. Cold rolling deformation between 0-80% was introduced into the sheet material followed by the standard annealing and aging procedure used for this commercial alloy, and the tensile-creep backstress was determined using the stress-reduction method.[READ]

TMS LETTERS ISSUE 5: "Accurate Evaluation of Boundary Segregation by STEM X-Ray Mapping and Orientation Imaging in TEM" by D.B. Williams, M. Watanabe, and C. Li
In this study, two techniques are developed to evaluate elemental segregations to boundaries. The first technique is to determine the local boundary excess coverage of elemental segregation via X-ray mapping in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). In addition, an orientation imaging technique in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been applied to examine crystallographic misorientation across the boundaries. [READ]

SUPERALLOYS 2004: "High Cycle Fatigue in a Single Crystal Superalloy: Time Dependence at Elevated Temperature" by P.K. Wright, M. Jain, and D. Cameron
This paper received the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Symposium on Superalloys. The high cycle fatigue (HCF) behavior of a coated superalloy, PW1484, was examined at 1038°C to identify the time dependent creep and oxidation interactions. Two major modes of failure were observed: fatigue at low mean stress and stress rupture at higher mean stress. A damage summation model was developed which was used to successfully describe the HCF capability under more complex cyclic conditions more representative of turbine engine conditions.[READ]

SUPERALLOYS 2004: "Effect of Microstructure (and Heat Treatment) on the 649°C Properties of Advanced P/M Superalloy Disk Materials" by J. J. Schirra, P.L. Reynolds, E.S. Huron, K.R. Bain, and D.P. Mourer
This paper describes the results of a NASA sponsored Enabling Propulsion Materials (EPM) program to understand compositional and heat treat factors to obtain a balance of properties required for a long-time, high temperature turbine disk. A statistically based approach was completed to assess the effect of microstructural and associated heat treatment on the elevated temperature capability of two advanced powder metallurgy (P/M) superalloys. The results showed that microstructure achieved by supersolvus heat treatment followed by a fast cooling rate in combination with the proper stabilization treatment produced a desirable balance of properties.[READ]

SUPERALLOYS 2004: "Issues in Processing by the Liquid-Sn Assisted Directional Solidification Technique" by A.J. Elliott, G.B. Karney, M.F.X. Gigliotti, and T.M. Pollock
This paper examines a liquid metal cooling (LMC) process which is used to produce large directionally solidified (DS) and single crystal (SX) castings for industrial gas turbines. Aspects of the liquid-tin assisted directional solidification process that have the greatest impact on cooling conditions at the solidification front were investigated. Control of the position of the solidification front relative to the coolant bath was essential for production of defect free casting. Process parameters that most strongly influenced quality included withdrawal rate, superheat and insulation on top of the coolant bath.[READ]

SUPERALLOYS 2004: "A Generic Microstructure-Explicit Model of Creep in Nickel-Base Superalloys" by H. Basoalto, S.K. Sondhi, B.F. Dyson, and M. McLean
The development of a creep model as part of the DARPA-sponsored Accelerated Insertion of Materials (AIM) program is described in this paper. The authors review and extend a microstructure-specific model of creep in particle-strengthened alloys in which the parameters are directly related to measurable characteristics of nickel-base superalloys. The model was successfully applied to a range of commercial superalloys, both equiaxed and columnar-grained, taking into account the effect of dislocation accumulation, particle coarsening and grain cavitation.[READ]

MEETINGS CALENDAR

Programs, on-line registration, and more:

10TH INT'L SYMPOSIUM ON SUPERALLOYS
Seven Springs, PA
Sept. 19-23, 2004

MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY '04
New Orleans, LA
Sept. 26-29, 2004

2005 TMS ANNUAL MEETING & EXHIBITION
San Francisco, CA
Feb. 13-17, 2005

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