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TMS COUNTS DOWN THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN MATERIALS . . .
. . . As Part of 50th Anniversary Celebration

HOW TO . . .
. . . Win a Trip to Disney World

FROM OUR SPONSOR: THERMO-CALC SOFTWARE—A LEADING DEVELOPER OF THERMODYNAMIC AND DIFFUSION CONTROLLED SIMULATION SOFTWARE
NEW Releases of Thermo-Calc and DICTRA

TMS PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSITY CENTERS . . .
. . . to Promote Developing Technologies

DEADLINES APPROACH . . .
. . . for September Webcast, MS&T, and Specialty Conferences

TMS ANNOUNCES NEWEST OFFERING IN WEBCAST SERIES
Intellectual Property Webcast Scheduled for October

TMS STUDENT AMBASSADOR TAKES HOME ANOTHER AWARD . . .
. . . from the Junior Euromat Conference in Switzerland

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
JOM Adds Product and Process News to On-Line Journal

AND THE WINNERS ARE . . .
TMS Announces Eight Prize Winners from Professional Registration Survey

WASHINGTON NEWS FROM THE FEDERATION OF MATERIALS SOCIETIES
National Academies Highlight Decline in Industry Support for R&D

. . . As Part of 50th Anniversary Celebration

In 2007, TMS will celebrate 50 years as a member society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. At this historic milestone, TMS will look back at the history of the society and the broader history of materials. As part of the society's 50th anniversary celebration, TMS's member journal JOM will count down the 50 greatest moments in materials, as selected by TMS members, JOM readers, members of the broader science and engineering community, and the general public.

TMS has compiled a list of 100 candidate events, based on the following definition:

A Great Materials Moment is defined as a pivotal or capstone event of human observation and/or intervention that led to a paradigm shift in humanity's understanding of materials behavior, that introduced a new era of materials utilization, and/or that yielded significant materials-enabled socio-economic changes.

Look over the top 100 list and vote for your favorite material moments. An on-line vote will determine the top 50 moments, with the top ten to be announced at a special plenary session at the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

. . . Win a Trip to Disney World

Invite your colleagues to join TMS and you could win a free trip to the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting, which will be held on Walt Disney World property. Full-conference registration, round-trip airfare, and hotel accommodations at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin hotel will go to the TMS member who recruits the most colleagues to join TMS. Even recruiting one or two members, however, will make you eligible to win other prizes, such as registrations to a TMS meeting of your choice or hotel gift certificates.

Start by telling a colleague or two about the TMS member benefits that you find the most useful. Then encourage him or her to join TMS. To get you started, TMS has developed an e-mail that you can send to colleagues outlining the various benefits of TMS membership. The e-mail, found at the "Invite a Colleague to Join TMS" web site, can be personalized by the sender. If your colleague decides to join TMS, have him or her indicate your name as the referring member when filling out the membership application. If they fill out the application by December 1, you will be eligible for TMS prizes. Good Luck!

NEW Releases of Thermo-Calc and DICTRA

Thermo-Calc Software is pleased to announce that new version releases for all of our software products—Thermo-Calc Classic (Version R), Thermo-Calc for Windows (Version 4) and DICTRA (Version 24)—are now available.

A major improvement in the new versions of Thermo-Calc (both TCC and TCW) is the implementation of a new global minimization routine, which ensures that a truly stable phase equilibrium is calculated without the need for specifying start values. Additionally, miscibility gaps are now automatically calculated without the need to pre-specify a second composition set.

Another new feature in both TCC and TCW is a module for calculating phase diagrams for ternary systems, which allows for automatic calculation of 1) isothermal sections, 2) monovariant lines, and 3) projections of the liquidus surface.

TCW also benefits from a new easier to use alternative "Materials" entry interface which allows the user to start more commonly used types of calculations from predefined alloy compositions.

Further information can be found at our website: www.thermocalc.com.

Thermo-Calc will be demonstrating their new products at MS&T 2006, Booth 105.

. . . to Promote Developing Technologies

To further promote technology developments in materials science and engineering, TMS is forging new partnerships with university research centers. Through these partnerships, TMS will provide the resources for these organizations to disseminate research, information, and software tools through the society's existing avenues. TMS signed its first partnership agreement in August with the Penn State/Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Design, which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

"These partnerships allow TMS to move forward on our strategic plan to extend core competencies and proactively promote the growth of emerging technologies," said Todd Osman, TMS technical director. "Through our publications and networks, TMS provides a variety of vehicles for the dissemination of knowledge generated at the centers while allowing for timely feedback critical for the development of valuable tools for the materials profession."

By partnering with university centers, TMS will provide these organizations with an established infrastructure through which they can communicate research and developments. TMS distribution avenues such as webcasts, journals, and TMS meetings will be open to these centers, allowing them to reach a diverse audience of materials professionals working in industry, government, and academia throughout the world.

The initiative grew out of discussions of the TMS Technical Advisory Group on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, which was developed to help the society better serve this emerging technology area. Future partnerships will extend to additional organizations in the computational materials field, but will branch out to include other technology areas as well. TMS continues to seek out university center partners to increase dissemination of information to working materials professionals. If you are part of a university center and would like to partner with TMS, please send a message to Todd Osman, TMS technical director.

. . . for September Webcast, MS&T, and Specialty Conferences

Webcast: Enhancing the Value Proposition Through Metals Recycling
September 28, 2006

On-line registration for this webcast closes on September 26. After that, call (724) 776-9000, ext. 243 to register. The webcast runs from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and features three real-time presentations on metals recycling issues. Presenters include authors from the August recycling issue of JOM.

International Conference on Innovative Solutions for the Advancement of the Transport Industry
Conference begins October 4

This international conference, presented by Inasmet-Tecnalia with co-sponsorship by TMS, provides a forum for the latest innovations and developments in the transportation industries and will help promote the implementation of new technological solutions.The conference runs October 4–6 in San Sebastián, Spain.

MS&T '06
Conference begins October 15

Though the early registration deadline has passed, attendees may register on-site for the Materials Science & Technology 2006 conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. TMS members are reminded to book their housing at the Millennium Hotel Cincinnati, the TMS headquarters hotel at MS&T. All TMS activities and meetings will take place in this hotel.

Submit Papers for Very High Cycle Fatigue Conference
Deadline Extended to November 15

This TMS specialty conference, scheduled for August 2007, will provide a venue for discussion of improved understanding of the fatigue behavior of structural materials in the very high cycle fatigue regime. Papers on a variety of topics related to this theme will be accepted through CMS-Plus, the on-line TMS Conference and Proceedings Management System.

Intellectual Property Webcast Scheduled for October

Back by popular demand, TMS is holding a second webcast on intellectual property (IP) issues in October. A follow up to the IP webcast held in April, Material(s) Issues in Intellectual Property: Practical Considerations and Case Studies will be held October 26 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Patent attorney Mark Leslie will discuss IP fundamentals in materials science and engineering, followed by more specific presentations by Christopher Paradies on novel materials used in nanotechnology inventions and Steven Marsh on patenting alloys and other materials compositions.

Webcasts are an ideal way to stay abreast of the materials science and engineering field without the time and expense of traveling to technical conferences. With multiple participants able to join in from a single site, the webcast is also an economical option for student groups and small companies. All TMS webcasts are presented by JOM and designed to complement content presented in the journal.

. . . from the Junior Euromat Conference in Switzerland

After taking second place overall in the 2006 TMS Technical Division Student Poster competition, Rejanah Steward won the opportunity to present her research at the Junior Euromat Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. And there, she won again, taking second place in her division. Winners were selected by a vote from the student attendees at the conference and Steward received 50 euros for her efforts.

Steward, a graduate student at the University of Tennessee, and John Romankiewicz, a senior at Northwestern University, were selected to represent TMS at the Junior Euromat conference after taking the top prizes at the 2006 TMS Technical Division Student Poster Contest, held at the TMS 2006 Annual Meeting. More than 300 students from throughout Europe attended and presented research at the Junior Euromat conference, sponsored by the Federation of European Materials Societies.

TMS will sponsor a second Technical Division Student Poster Contest at the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, where the top student presentations will attend the Sixth Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM 6) in Jeju Island, Korea. To participate in the contest, students should submit poster abstracts to CMS-Plus, the on-line TMS conference and proceedings management system, by December 15.

JOM Adds Product and Process News to On-Line Journal

JOM's flashy new on-line presence now includes an additional feature: JOM Extra. This supplement to the regular journal acts as a forum for commercial news and announcements, topics not traditionally covered within the pages of JOM. Readers can view JOM Extra by visiting the on-line page-turning JOM and clicking on the box that reads "Launch JOM Extra" on the introductory page. JOM Extra is also presented in page-turning format, meaning that readers may leaf through this journal supplement and click through to appropriate web sites.

Not a TMS member or a regular subscriber to the journal? The September issue is now available as a free sample issue through the JOM web site. To be included in JOM Extra, companies are invited to submit one news release with one color photo per month to JOM by e-mail.

TMS Announces Eight Prize Winners from Professional Registration Survey

Approximately 675 professional engineers responded to the TMS Professional Registration Committee's Professional Activities and Knowledge Survey. Responses will be used to help the committee determine the specifications for the proposed new Metallurgical and Materials Professional Engineering Exam. In appreciation for the input provided, TMS entered all survey respondents into a drawing to win TMS prizes. The drawing winners were:

• Michael Perkins won a free MS&T registration
• William J. Boettinger and Shahram Sheybany won ten free downloads from the TMS Document Center
• David R. Poulin, Kyle M. Gibson, Joseph M. Hamnik, William D. Van Arnam, and Jaakko Suni won free TMS memberships for one year

National Academies Highlight Decline in Industry Support for R&D

A new report from the U.S. National Academies Press concludes that "a three-decades-long trend of increasingly strong ties between industry and universities may have ended." The report arises from a meeting earlier this year where industry and university participants indicated that negotiations of research agreements, particularly disagreements over the treatment of intellectual property (IP), were negatively affecting the entire industry-university research partnership in the United States. Participants reported that U.S. companies increasingly choose to partner with foreign rather than U.S. universities, encouraged by the more favorable IP rights that foreign universities offer and the strong incentives for joint industry-university research that foreign governments provide. Trends in academic scientific articles with industry participation also suggest a recent decline in industry-university collaboration, and fewer citations of U.S. science and engineering articles in U.S. industrial patents may also be suggestive of a decline in industry-university collaboration.

The National Academies report cautions that "Although both R&D support and publication data suggest a shift in the relationship between industry and academia, the data are not conclusive. Industry can cooperate or collaborate in research with academic institutions in ways other than providing direct financial support or coauthoring scientific articles, including using academic consultants, providing research space or equipment to academic researchers, making use of specialized facilities at academic institutions, and employing student interns. Further research is needed to determine how these relationships have evolved over the past few years and to clarify the relationship between the commercial activities of universities and industry-university collaboration."

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EDITORS' CHOICE

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

SEPTEMBER JOM: "A Century of Discoveries, Inventors, and New Nickel Alloys" by Shailesh J. Patel
The 20th century was an explosive period for the growth of the nickel industry beginning in 1906 with the development of Monel® metal. What followed over the next 100 years was the invention of hundreds of new alloys uniquely designed for scores of applications in a multitude of industries. This paper acknowledges a number of the prolific inventors who pioneered new fields of alloy development. It also highlights a long list of major metallurgical discoveries made by the metallurgists of the International Nickel Company. [READ]

SEPTEMBER JOM: "Nanoengineering Opens a New Era for Tungsten as Well" by Q. Wei, K.T. Ramesh, B.E. Schuster, L.J. Kecskes, and R.J. Dowding
For the past century, tungsten has been exploited for numerous applications due to its unique properties, including its extremely high melting point, mass density, and mechanical strength. One specific potential application of tungsten (owing to its high mass density and strength) is the replacement of depleted uranium within kinetic energy anti-armor penetrators. Strenuous efforts in this direction have had limited success. However, nanoengineering has been applied recently to tailor the microstructure and properties of tungsten, leading to dramatic improvement with regard to this application. This paper provides some recent results on nanoengineered tungsten and discusses the underlying principles. It appears that nanoengineering is opening a new era for tungsten. [READ]

SEPTEMBER JOM: "The History Channel Looks at the "Modern Marvels" of Heavy Metals" by Maureen Byko
In June, The History Channel's Modern Marvels program presented "Heavy Metals," providing viewers not just the whats, but the whys and the hows of uranium, copper, iron, lead, and zinc. This feature article provides some background on the popular show and the "Heavy Metals" episode. [READ]

SEPTEMBER JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS: "Reliability Issues in Pb-Free Solder Joint Miniaturization" by Z. Huang, P. Conway, E. Jung, R. Thomson, C. Liu, T. Loeher, and M. Minkus
As solder joints become increasingly miniaturized to meet the severe demands of future electronic packaging, it is vitally important to consider whether the solder joint size and geometry could become reliability issues and thereby affect implementation of the Pb-free solders. In this study, three bumping techniques, i.e., solder dipping, stencil printing followed by solder reflow, and electroplating of solders with subsequent reflow, were used to investigate the interfacial interactions of molten Sn-3.5Ag, Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu, and pure Sn solders on a copper pad at 240°C. [READ]

SEPTEMBER MMTA: "Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A" by Various Authors
The September issue of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A contains 26 papers on the topics of alloy phases, transformations, transport phenomena, mechanical behavior, physical chemistry, welding and joining, solidification, materials processing, composite materials, and light metals. This issue also includes a section of communications and a review on analytical models of the anisotropy of segregation to grain boundaries and surfaces.[READ]

MODELING OF CASTING, WELDING, AND ADVANCED SOLIDIFICATION XI: "A Granular Model for Mushy Zones: Application to Hot Tearing" by S. Vernède, P. Jarry, and M. Rappaz
The last stage of solidification, especially for low concentration metallic alloys, is a key factor for the formation of casting defects such as porosity or hot cracking. In order to study the properties of mushy zones in globulitic microstructures, a simulation approach focused on the grain as a basic construction element has been developed recently. In this model, the grains are modelled as polyhedrons constructed from the Voronoi tessellation of a random set of nucleation centers. Solidification within each polyhedron is first calculated using a back-diffusion model, which can include or not the coalescence contribution at grains boundaries. Then, assuming a Poiseuille flow in the remaining liquid channels and a Kirchhoff model for the connectivity of the network, the liquid flow induced by solidification shrinkage and the associated pressure drop are calculated. Finally, a mechanical model for this set of grains is being developed considering the connectivity of the grains (clusters) and thermal shrinkage. The opening of the remaining liquid boundaries due to these thermal strains is an additional contribution to liquid feeding, and thus to the pressure drop. This granular model of solidification combining thermal, mechanical and feeding aspects allows to naturally reproduce the gradual transition of the mushy zone from a continuous liquid film network to a fully coherent solid skeleton. More important, it accounts for the localization of strains and feeding at remaining wet grain boundaries, thus providing a better insight into the mechanism of hot tearing formation.[READ]

MODELING OF CASTING, WELDING, AND ADVANCED SOLIDIFICATION XI: "Design Optimization of Ingot Casting Wheels Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic Modelling and Experiments" by M. Prakash, P.W. Cleary, J. Grandfield, P. Rohan, and V. Nguyen
In aluminum re-melt ingot casting, the quality of ingots produced can depend to a large extent on the wheel and nozzle design. The nature of the flow through the wheel and nozzle can result in increased exposure of aluminum to air thus increasing the amount of dross (oxide) in the system. This oxide reduces the quality and surface finish of the ingots that are finally formed. At present there is no way of experimentally evaluating the amount of oxide present in the ingots and pilot-scale experimentation is expensive and difficult. The challenge addressed here is to develop better wheel designs that operate at higher flow rates and reduce the extent of oxide generation. The grid-free Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method was used as the primary computational modeling tool with full scale testing using a pilot caster setup to complement the modeling. In this paper, we report on the various stages of design modifications to the wheel and nozzle based on results obtained from earlier designs finally leading to an optimized wheel design. The new wheel is able to operate at 50% higher throughput with an expected reduction in the oxide content of around 53% compared to that of the original wheel design.[READ]

Programs, on-line registration, and more:

WEBCAST: METALS RECYCLING
11:30am–1:30pm EST
Sept. 28, 2006

COM 2006: CONFERENCE OF METALLURGISTS
Montréal, Canada
October 1–4, 2006

THIRD INT'L SYMPOSIUM ON IRON CONTROL IN HYDROMETALLURGY
Montréal, Canada
October 1–4, 2006

INT'L SYMPOSIUM ON MAGNESIUM TECHNOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL AGE
Montréal, Canada
October 1–4, 2006

INT'l CONF. ON INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
San Sebastian, Spain
October 4–6, 2006

MS&T '06
Cincinnati, OH
Oct. 15–19, 2006

7th INT'L CONF. ON MG ALLOYS AND APPLICATIONS
Dresden, Germany
Nov. 6–9, 2006

INT'L CONF. ON ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Fatehgarh Sahib, India
Dec. 1–3, 2006

2007 TMS ANNUAL MEETING
Orlando, FL
Feb. 25–Mar. 1, 2007

11th WORLD CONF. ON TITANIUM
Kyoto, Japan
June 3–7, 2007

EUROPEAN METALLURGICAL CONF. 2007
Dusseldorf, Germany
June 11–14, 2007

EMC 2007
Notre Dame, IN
June 20 –22, 2007

4th INT'L VERY HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE CONF.
Abstracts Due: Nov. 15, 2006
Ann Arbor, MI
Aug. 19–22, 2007

COPPER 2007
Toronto, Canada
Aug. 25–30, 2007

EUROMAT 2007
Nuremberg, Germany
Sept. 10–13, 2007

MS&T '07
Detroit, MI
Sept. 16–20, 2007

PRICM 6
Abstracts Due: Jan. 15, 2007
Jeju Island, Korea
Nov. 6–9, 2007

2008 TMS ANNUAL MEETING
New Orleans, LA
Mar. 9–13, 2008

SUPERALLOYS 2008
Champion, PA
Sept. 14–18, 2008

REWAS 2008
Cancun, Mexico
Oct. 12–15, 2008

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