Alain Lodini Plenary Lecture:

• Prof Philip Withers (University of Manchester, UK): “Insights into fracture mechanics: what can x-ray diffraction and imaging tell us?”

 

Keynote Talks:

• Prof Cev Noyan (Columbia State University, USA): “Saint Venant’s Principle and Effect of Complex Geometries in X-ray and Neutron Strain Analysis”
• Prof Andrzej Baczmanski (University of Science and Technology, Poland): “Diffraction methods and scale transition model used to study evolution of the intergranular stress and micro-damage phenomenon during elasto-plastic deformation"

Invited Talks:

• Techniques & Instruments

• Christoph Genzel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany): “Exploiting the features of energy-dispersive diffraction for depth-resolved residual stress analysis: From lab to synchrotron and back”
• Chris Wensrich (University of Newcastle, Australia): “Practical demonstration of Bragg-edge neutron transmission strain tomography”

 

• Surface Modification and Coating

• Kristina Langer (Air Force Research Laboratory / RQVS, USA): “The role of residual stress measurements in US Air Force aircraft sustainment programs”
• Vladimir Luzin (ANSTO, Australia): “Neutron through thickness stress measurements in two-phase coatings with high spatial resolution”

 

• Microstructure characterisation

• Reeju Pokharel (Los Alamos National Lab, USA): “Grain scale microstructure evolution characterization of ceramic nuclear fuels”
• Michael Preuss (University of Manchester, UK): “Synchrotron X-ray techniques for understanding Zirconium fuel cladding degradation”

 

• Deformation & Modelling

• Kristián Máthis (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): “Application of in-situ experimental methods for revealing deformation mechanisms in advanced magnesium alloys”
• Xun-Li Wang (City University of Hong Kong): “Magneto-elastic coupling with twin-boundary motion in magnetic shape memory alloys”
• Michael Gharghouri (Chalk River, Canada): “In-Situ Neutron Diffraction Study of the Effect of Biaxial Stress on the Deformation of Zircaloy-4”

 

• Processing & Welding

• Supriyo Ganguly (Cranfield University, UK): “Control of residual stress and microstructure in large scale additive manufacturing”
• Mark Newby (Eskom, South Africa): “Neutron Diffraction Evaluation of Residual Stress in Friction Welded Thick Walled Power Industry Components ”
• Hahn Choo (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA): “The relationship between processing parameters and defect characteristics in a 3-D printed stainless steel alloy: A Synchrotron X-ray Tomography Study ”

 

• 3D/4D characterisation

• Daigo Setoyama (Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc., Japan): " Microstructural analysis of cold-reduced carbon steel by scanning 3DXRD microscopy and crystal plasticity finite element analysis"
• Petr Sittner (Institute of Physics of the CAS, Czech Republic): Internal stresses, strains and phase fractions surrounding martensite band front propagating in superelastic NiTi wire loaded in tension”

 

• Mechanical methods vs. diffraction

• John Bouchard (Open University, UK): “Why Multiple Methods are Best”

 

• Fatigue / Creep Plasticity

• Kenji Suzuki (Niigata University, Japan): “Diffraction plane dependence of micro residual strain by plastic deformation”

 

• Others

• Kamel Fezzaa (Argonne National Lab, USA): “Ultrafast x-ray imaging and complementary techniques at 32-ID beamline of the APS”