Symposium: Fundamentals of Sintering and Advanced Sintering Processes
Scope of the Symposium:
This symposium covers fundamental aspects of sintering and related phenomena, such as grain growth, as well as recent advances in sintering processes. Both simulations (modelling) and experimental contributions are welcome, ranging from the atomistic perspective to a mesoscale description of sintering.
Abstracts on the following subjects may be submitted:
Science and technology of conventional pressureless sintering
Field- and pressure-assisted processes
Science and technology of cold sintering
Grain growth processes and modeling
Sintering of porous materials
Sintering and additive manufacturing
Thermodynamics of sintering
Control of ceramic properties via sintering and grain growth
Symposium Organizers:
Chairman: Ricardo Castro
University of California - Davis, USA
E-mail: rhrcastro@ucdavis.edu
Co-chair: Douglas Gouvea
University of São Paulo, Brazil
E-mail: dgouvea@usp.br
Co-chair: Gary Messing
Penn State University, USA
E-mail:
messing@matse.psu.edu
Tentative list of invited speakers:
Fadi Abdeljawad, Sandia National Lab, USA
Suk-Joong L. Kang, KAIST, South Korea
Feng Liu, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Rajendra Kumar Bordia, Clemson University, USA
Martha Mecartney, University of California, Irvine, USA
Veena Tikare, Sandia National Lab, USA
Robert O'Brien, Idaho National Lab, USA
Wolfgang Rheinheimer, KIT, Germany
Christophe Martin, SIMAP, Grenoble, France
Ivar Reimanis, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Scientific Committee:
Dachamir Hotza, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Wilson Acchar, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Javier Garay, University of California-San Diego
Martha Mecartney, University of California-Irvine
Olivia Graeve, University of California-San Diego
Tatsuki Ohji (AIST, Japan)
Jingzhe Pan (University of Leicester, U.K.)
Tadeusz Pieczonka (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Poland)
Albert Carneiro (Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina)
Jan Räthel (Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany)
Tobias Vossmeyer (Universitat Hamburg)
Graham Schaffer (University of Melbourne, Australia)