The 4th WMRIF Meeting was held in Shenyang, China, in June 2011. The symposium centred on Materials Challenges for Safety and Reliability.
4th WMRIF Meeting 2011 – Agenda (pdf)
Presentations of the Symposium on Materials Challenges for Safety and Reliability:
- Biomedical titanium alloys for improved implant reliability and compatibility |Prof. Rui Yang (Institute of Metal Research, CAS)
- Challenges for Materials in Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines: TMF and TMF-HCF Interaction | Prof. Detlef Löhe (KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Time Dependent Fracture and its Life Prediction Based on the Physics of Phenomenology | Prof. Toshimitsu Yokobori Jr. (Tohoku University)
- Reliability assessment of multi-length scale structural components | Dr. Robert McMeeking (UCSB)
- Failure analysis | Prof. (Emeritus) A.J. McEvily (University Connecticut)
- Understanding Fracture To Prevent Failure | Dr. James R. Fekete (NIST)
- How carbon fiber reinforced polymers will challenge the construction of suspended bridges and contribute to their safety and long term reliability| Prof. Dr. Urs Meier (EMPA)
- Carbon Nanotube-Based Damage Sensing | Dr. Amanda Wu (University of Delaware)
- Advances in laser assisted 3D atom probe as a tool to develop advanced metallic materials Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Dr. Kazuhiro Hono (NIMS)
- Fabrication, microstructures, mechanical properties and high temperature performance of tungsten matrix composites reinforced by TiC and ZrC particles | Prof. Yu Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology)
- High Temperature Materials Researches for Gas Turbines and Aero-engines at NIMS | Dr. Hiroshi Harada and Dr. Yuefeng Gu (NIMS)
- Design and Manufacture of Ceramic Safety Components | Prof. Walter Krenkel (University of Bayreuth)
- Thermal Barrier Coatings: Life Prediction Based on Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Test and Interface Fracture Mechanics | Prof. Yutaka Kagawa (Univ. Tokyo, NIMS)
- Damage tolerant approach in development of protective thermally sprayed coatings | Prof. Dr. Erja Turunen (VTT)
- Surface protection by corrosion resistant or thermal barrier coatings | Dr. Axel Kranzmann (BAM)
- Developments in composites testing and standardization regarding stress concentrations and damage features | Dr. Graham Sims (NPL)
- Standardization on Mechanical Testing for Safety and Reliability of structures – Instrumented Indentation | Prof. Dongil Kwon (Seoul University)
- What is NCMS? – Meeting Assessment Challenges of Materials Performance and Safety | Prof. Dongbai Sun (NCMS of USTB)
WMRIF affairs reporting – Report from presidential board and secretariat | Prof. T. Kishi
