History and Scope |
1981 - Pittsburgh
1987 - Cambridge
1994 - Nemacolin Woodlands
1999 - Kyoto
2005 - Phoenix
2010 - Avignon.
PTM2015 will focus on the following broad topics:
1) Diffusional transformations including nucleation, growth, coarsening, precipitation, spinodal decomposition, interphase migration, austenite-ferrite transformation, order-disorder transformations, elasticity
2) Displacive transformations including martensitic transformations and shape memory alloys
3) Advances in experimental techniques including scattering and diffraction techniques, atom probe, high-resolution electron microscopy and laser ultrasonics
4) Advances in modelling and simulation including atomistic simulations, phase field and other meso-scale simulations, multi-scale modelling, fundamentals of structures, thermodynamics and diffusion
5) Industrial applications including phase transformations in advanced steels, thermo-mechanical processing, welding and nuclear materials
6) Emerging areas including phase transitions in interfaces, amorphous alloys/quasicrystals, nanomaterials and materials for sustainable energy