Noon–6 p.m.

Student Chapter Development Conference

1 to 5 p.m.

Materials Informatics: Theory and Application

Speakers and Topics

• Professor Krishna Rajan, Iowa State University
  “Materials Informatics and Data Mining”
• Professor Laura Bartolo, Kent State University
  “A Materials Digital Library”
• Dr. Kim Ferris, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “Computational Materials Science and Materials Informatics”
• Dr. Paul Mason, ThermoCalc:
  “Computational Thermodynamics and Materials Informatics”

Workshop

The materials informatics toolset can provide materials scientists and engineers with capabilities to increase the efficiency of their research, development, and materials selection as well as enhance new materials discovery. These tools are not in common use due partly to their evolving, developmental nature, but also due to unfamiliarity with the concepts and their applications in the materials community.

This workshop will provide an introduction to the materials informatics toolset through a combined lecture and demonstration approach, with the opportunity for direct use by the participants using case study/sample problems. It will facilitate the dissemination of information from ongoing research and demonstration projects at Iowa State University and NSF-CoSMIC-IMI.

Workshop attendees will receive a CD-ROM containing the introductory material along with case study examples of the use of materials informatics in both metallic and ceramic systems.

Frontiers of Science and Society — Rustum Roy Lecture
“Science, Technology and Society, the Tightening Circle”

2006 Award Recipient

Dr. George Bugliarello is president emeritus, university professor and former chancellor of Polytechnic University. He has a broad back­ground ranging from fluid mechanics to computer languages, the environment, bio­medical engineering and science policy. He holds a doctorate in engineering from the Mass­achusetts Institute of Technology, and has honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Trieste, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, the Illinois Institute of Technology, Pace University, Trinity College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Bugliarello is now serving a four-year term as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Engineering, having been a member since 1987. He is a lifetime National Associate of The National Academies and currently serves as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Council’s International Affairs Committee.

Lecture

Society’s challenge is to understand the consequences of these accelerated dynamics and to guide its evolution for the greater good of our species. Increasingly pressing issues range from health to the economy, from defense to laws and civil liberties, from ethics to international relations, from ecology to resilience in disasters, and propel us to conquer ever newer interdisciplinary frontiers. The area of materials, so central to the advancement of society, is a rich source of examples of this tightening circle.

Poster Session & Welcome Reception
Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor

Attend this high profile, all-conference poster event featuring a ceramographic exhibit! More than 200 posters, representing the five technical themes at MS&T, will be displayed. Network with the authors to discuss the latest research in materials science and technology.

ASM/TMS Distinguished Lecture
“Economic and Environmental Issues Associated with the Selection, Manufacturing and Use of Materials”

Speaker

Joel P. Clark is a professor in the materials science and engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching are focused on developing methods to analyze the competitive position of materials and processes in specific applications.  He founded the Materials Systems Laboratory in 1983 to work closely with industrial partners.  More than 40 companies from the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America have sponsored this work. Research highlights include: (1) technical cost modeling to simulate the cost of processing materials and products, depending upon technology, product design and manufacturing environment; (2) multi-attribute utility assessment, to estimate the demand for materials and products as a function of the properties of the materials employed; and (3) life cycle analysis methodology for analyzing cost and environmental impact of changes in product design and manufacturing technologies.

Lecture

Economic and Environmental Issues Associated with the Selection, Manufacturing and Use of Materials
Analyzing the competitive position of materials is often confusing and ambiguous because there is seldom a situation in which one material is superior among all metrics. This lecture will cover methods for determining costs (process-based cost modeling) and environmental performance (life cycle analysis) as well as materials preferences of users (multi-attribute utility). Questions to be answered include: (1) Given a set of candidate designs, materials and manufacturing processes, which are "best" in terms of product performance and the costs of manufacturing, using and recycling or disposal? (2) How important is materials availability in the short- and long-terms? (3) Does geographic location favor specific materials and processes? Case studies from the automotive and electronics industries will also be presented.

3 to 4 p.m.

Alpha Sigma Mu Lecture
“Metallic Glasses and Glass Forming Liquids: Recent Advances in Fundamental Understanding”

Speaker

William L. Johnson, FASM, is a professor at Keck Laboratory of Engineering, California Institute of Technology.

Lecture

Metallic Glasses and Glass Forming Liquids: Recent Advances in Fundamental Understanding
Bulk metallic glass forming alloys are a new class of materials and have become the focus of substantial scientific and technological interest. The liquid alloys exhibit complex rheology and thermal properties which are often similar to those of polymers, molecular liquids, and silicates. In the glassy state, these materials exhibit high strength, widely varying fracture toughness, and ductility which depends on loading geometry. The fundamental origin of these properties lies in the physics of cooperative shear zones, clusters of ~100-200 atoms which undergo collective rearrangements in response to thermal excitation or applied stresses. A theoretical understanding of this behavior is emerging which suggests that all BMGs have universal features in common. The detailed properties of individual BMGs (and their corresponding liquids) can be distinguished by a few simple parameters such as the Posson's ratio of the frozen glass. The underlying theory is outlined in this lecture and compared with experimental data. 

TMS Young Leaders Tutorial Luncheon
“Investigating the Collapse of the World Trade Center”

Speaker: Dr. Stephen W. Banovic, National Institute of Standards
and Technology

11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Industry Track 2006

Corporate Environmental Achievement Award: Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Inc.

“Knowing When to Hold ‘Em: Patents vs. Trade Secret Protection”  by C. John Brannon, Bringham McHale LLP

“Federal Regulatory and Legislative Initiatives Affecting the Ceramic and Materials Industries” by Rob Crolius, The Refractories Institute

“Women in Business” by Holly Shulman, Ceralink

“Lessons in Developing a Business Around New Materials Technology” by Richard Schorr, Meta Materials

“The Use of Porcelain Enamel Coatings on Reinforcing Steel to  Enhance the Bond to Concrete” by Cullen Hackler, Porcelain Enamel Institute Inc.; Mike Koenigstein, Roesch Inc.; Dr. Phillip G. Malone, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

“Resistance Spot Weldability of Three Metal Stack-Up of Dual Phase 600 Hot Dip Galvanized Steel” by Ravir S. Bhatnagar and Sree Harsha Lalam of Mittal Steel USA; Rama Koganti, Adrian Elliott, Arnon Wexler, Ted Coon and Armando Joaquin of Ford Motor Company

“New Capabilities at the High Temperature Materials Laboratory” by Arvid Pasto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

“Innovative Drying Technologies: From Concept to Reality on the   Plant Floor” by Ben Wilson, PSC Inc.

“Basics of Atmospheres”  by Air Products & Chemicals Inc. and Surface Combustion Inc.

"The Application of the Scratch Test to Industrial Quality Control of Hard Coatings and Thin Films" by Jill Powell, Technical Sales Manager, CSM Instruments

Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lectureship
“Computational Materials Scieneering”

Speaker

Gregory B. Olson, FASM, FTMS, is Wilson-Cook professor of engineering design, and professor of materials science and engineering, at Northwestern University. He is also associate director for research of the IDEA Institute for Design Engineering & Applications, director of Materials Technology Laboratory/Steel Research Group, and a founder of QuesTek Innovations LLC. Professor Olson received a doctorate in materials science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has authored over 200 publications. His research interests include phase transformations, structure/property relationships, applications of high resolution microanalysis, materials design, and the concurrent engineering of materials and structures.

Lecture

Computational Materials Scieneering
The numerical implementation of established materials science principles in the form of purposeful engineering tools has brought a new level of integration of the science and engineering of materials. Parametric materials design integrating materials science, applied mechanics and quantum physics within a systems engineering framework has brought a first generation of designer "cyberalloys"; these cyberalloys have now entered successful commercial applications, and a new enterprise of commercial materials design services has steadily grown over the past decade. The success of materials design established a basis for the recent DARPA-AIM initiative which broadened computational materials engineering to address acceleration of the full materials development and qualification cycle. As the central engine of the AIM methodology, the PrecipiCalc microstructural simulator has demonstrated both accelerated thermal process optimization at the component level and the effective forecast of manufacturing variation with efficient fusion of minimal datasets. A new level of science-based modeling accuracy is being achieved under the ONR "D3D" Digital Structure consortium. A suite of advanced 3D tomographic characterization tools are used to calibrate and validate a set of high fidelity explicit 3D microstructural simulation tools spanning the hierarchy of microstructural scales. A new research/education integration has established a novel infrastructure of engineering design education in which graduate researchers serve as mentors to undergraduate design teams; an engineering school-wide, multiyear design curriculum allows undergraduates to participate directly in the frontier of concurrent engineering of materials and structures, bringing materials into the Design Age.

Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture
“Microstructural and Interfacial Engineering of Ceramics Across Atomic-to-Micro Length Scales”

2006 Recipient

Dr. Paul F. Becher is Corporate Fellow and Research Group Leader of the Ceramic Science and Technology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is currently researching mechanisms controlling microstructural evolution and properties (especially mechanical and thermal behavior) of ceramic systems across multiple length scales. 

Dr. Becher is a Fellow and past president of The American Ceramic Society, a Robert Browning Sosman Memorial Lecturer, and associate editor of the Journal. He has received many awards including the Alexander Von Humbolt Foundation Research Award and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. A member of the National Materials Advisory Board, Dr. Becher is also a Distinguished Materials Science and Engineering Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his doctorate in ceramics from North Carolina State University.

Lecture

Microstructural and Interfacial Engineering of Ceramics Across Atomic-to-Micro Length Scales
Understanding the mechanisms that influence microstructure evolution and/or the nature of the interfacial region has led to ceramics with unique properties. Knowledge of the segregation and adsorption of additive atoms is now used to tailor the morphology of silicon nitride grains. These additives also can alter interfacial response during fracture and, when combined with reinforcing grains, have substantially increased the fracture resistance in silicon nitride and carbide ceramics.

Multiple interfaces in superlattice solid oxide electrolytes can impart increased ionic conductivity due to high interfacial conductivity, which can be up to 1000-fold greater than lattice conductivity. A dramatic drop in series resistance also is gained by increasing the number of ~25 nm-thick alternating layers of doped and undoped cerium oxide. 

Thus, the tailoring of microstructural and interfacial characteristics across micro-to-atomic length scales provides a pathway for performance breakthroughs in ceramics for both structural and electrochemical applications. This research was sponsored by the Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT–Battelle.

Della Roy Lecture
“Pore Water/Pore Structure/Properties of Concrete: APersonal View”

Speaker

Erik J. Sellevold is professor of concrete technology in the structural engineering department at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. His research areas include early structure/property development in concrete, crack sensitivity; pore structure characterization, moisture fixation and ice formation; silica fume effects: hydration, structure, durability and mechanical properties; and durability testing and relation to field performance. Professor Sellevold has more than 150 publications to his credit. He earned his doctorate in building materials at Stanford University.

Lecture

Pore Water/Pore Structure/Properties of Concrete: A Personal View
Pore structure and pore water content strongly influence most of the properties of concrete. There is strong interaction between the two in that the pore structure determines the water content under given exposure conditions. The study of pore water behaviour is, by itself, a powerful tool to elucidate features of  the concrete pore structures. This talk concerns both of these aspects. The methods used to study pore water behaviour include water sorption at various temperatures, dynamic mechanical response to -150 degC, differential scanning calorimetry to -100 degC, electrical resistivity, and thermal expansion coefficient and autogenous deformation from setting of the concrete. Case studies will be presented of the pore water content and its state (the relative humidity it exerts) in concrete structures under different climatic conditions.

Industry Track 2006

Corporate Technical Achievement Award: Corning Inc.

“Thinking Skill Optimization in Failure Analysis” by Debbie Aliya, Aliya Analytical Inc.

Materials Research Support at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Speakers

• W. Lance Haworth, Acting Director, NSF Division of Materials Research, Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• MaryLynn Realff, NSF Division of Manufacturing Engineering
• Jay Tiley, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Julie Christodoulou, Office of Naval Research

Presentations include:
An overview of NSF programs supporting materials research and education, and a review of current funding opportunities

This presentation provides perspective on needs and opportunities in materials research and education. NSF invests approximately $400 million dollars annually in this field, primarily through awards to the nation’s colleges and universities. New opportunities and directions, including a new program in biomaterials, will be described. Question-and-answer period will follow the presentations.

Robert B. Sosman Award and Lecture
“A Perspective of Nanoceramics”

2006 Recipient
I-Wei Chen is Skirkanich Professor of Materials Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. He began ceramic research studying martensitic transformations in zirconia nanocrystals, which led to work on transformation plasticity, superplasticity, fatigue, grain growth and sintering in various oxides and nitrides. His current interests include ferroelectrics nanotechnology, thin film devices, and nanoparticles for biomedical applications.

Dr. Chen is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society and has chaired a society division and several committees. He has received various awards, including the Edward C. Henry Award (Electronic Division), and authored 90 papers in the Journal of The American Ceramic Society. Dr. Chen is currently listed in the ISI Directory of Most Cited Authors (Materials). He received his doctorate in metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lecture 

Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecture
Flat Glass Manufacturing and Trends in Automotive Glazing.

Methods employed in the manufacture of flat glass will be reviewed. Examples are the “Float Process” which is prevalent in the manufacture of Architectural   and Automotive glass and the “Fusion Process” which is predominant in the manufacture of Flat Panel Displays. 

Since glass has become an integral part of car design evolution, allowing for an increase in vehicle’s transparent area, the trends in automotive glass glazing will also be reviewed.  A discussion of the challenges faced in solar management will include developments in heat absorbing and reflective glasses, switchable transmission glass roofs, photovoltaic panels and other trends.

2006 Recipient
Dr. Edward Boulos, Consultant
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