Symposium Topics

• Superplastic Forming, Creep Age Forming and Quick Plastic Forming, Rotary forming and similar.
• PM-components, with special focus on reactive materials such as Mg and reaction processing of intermetallics.
• Advanced joining processes such as Friction Stir Welding, Electron Beam Welding, Self-Piercing Rivets and Adhesive joining.
• Machining related problems for high precision components made from light materials.
• Microstructural control in components and component performance, especially at elevated temperature or under fatigue loading and associated failure characteristics.
• Joining process and influence on the component performance under fatigue load and impact.
• Implementation of new processes and the implication on material related matters following scale up for part soundness, quality and tolerance control. and replication of lab-scale results