April 17 - 21, 2017
Phoenix, Arizona
2017 MRS Spring Meeting

Symposium NM9-High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions

Technological advances in the areas of nuclear systems, marine platforms, microelectronics, and aerospace applications, amongst others, are often constrained by limits on the performance of metals and alloys in these application environments. To meet these demanding applications, the properties of existing as well as emerging high-performance metals and alloys need to be explored, ultimately leading to the development of next generation of advanced materials. This symposium will focus on the properties of structural metals and alloys in the broad context of extreme environments. This topic area will include materials for radiation environments, mechanical extremes (high stress, strain or strain rate), high/low temperature, harsh environments that lead to chemo-mechanical coupling (e.g., stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement), as well as size extremes (high surface to volume ratios). This symposium will cover a wide range of topics including the design of novel materials as well as material fabrication, characterization and performance evaluation. In addition, studies that use theoretical and computational methods to elucidate the properties of materials within these environments are also encouraged.

Topics will include:

  • Microstructures and mechanical behavior of metals and alloys subject to the following extreme conditions

Invited Speakers:

  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _0 (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _1 (Tohoku University, Japan)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _2 (Max Planck Institutue for Iron Research, Germany)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _3 (Texas A&M University, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _4 (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _5 (Sandia Natinal Laboratories, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _6 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _7 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _8 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _9 (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _10 (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _11 (The Ohio State University, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _12 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _13 (University of Michigan, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _14 (Technoion, Israel)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _15 (University of Lyon, France)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _16 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _17 (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _18 (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _19 (University of Michigan, USA)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _20 (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _21 (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _22 (Zhejiang University, China)
  • NM9_High-Performance Metals and Alloys in Extreme Conditions _23 (Purdue University, USA)

Symposium Organizers

Weizhong Han
Xi'an Jiaotong University
School of Materials Science and Engineering
China

Ying Chen
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
USA

Nan Li
Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA

Christopher Weinberger
Drexel University
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
USA

Topics

ductility embrittlement fracture ion-implantation metal neutron irradiation radiation effects strain relationship strength toughness