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Introduction
Product
innovation is chiefly driven by the desire to produce steels with tailor
made microstructure and properties suited to diverse applications.
Significant progress has been made in understanding the influence of
alloying elements, hot deformation of austenite and its controlled
decomposition during cooling, cold rolling and annealing to generate a
wide array of microstructures and mechanical properties in hot and cold
rolled products. These developments are aimed at meeting ever increasing
demands for steel with higher performance and reliability in service.
Physical simulation coupled with mathematical modeling and other
advanced techniques have proved to be techno-economically attractive in
improving metallurgical processes, leading to enhancement in quality of
contemporary products and development of new products.
The
first international conference on Thermo-mechanical Simulation and
Processing of Steels was held in 2004 at
R & D Centre for Iron & Steel,
SAIL, Ranchi. In this
series, second conference
(SimPro’08) will be another step forward to focus on recent advances in
thermo-mechanical processing, emphasizing various simulation techniques
and their applications. It will provide an opportunity to scientists and
technologists from research/ academic institutes, and manufacturers to
share their experience and find new directions in producing high value
products.
The
conference will focus on:
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Phase transformation
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Recrystallization and grain growth
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Mathematical modeling of metallurgical processes and
microstructure
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Simulation of
continuous casting, hot rolling, forging, heat-treatment, strip
annealing, and welding
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Advances in thermo-mechanical processing of steels
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Structure-properly correlation
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Emerging steel products and applications
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Call For
Paper
Technical papers are
invited for presentation in the conference as per the following
schedule. Authors are requested to submit the abstract of about 400
words. The papers will be scrutinized by a Technical Committee before
their acceptance. Please use the following methods for submission of
abstract and papers :
E-mail submission :
E-mail
your formatted abstract / paper as Microsoft Word file attachment to
simpro@sail-rdcis.com
Website submission :
Submit formatted abstract
on the Conference Website at www.simpro-ranchi.com. Please do not include equations,
tables or figures in the abstract.
Authors of the accepted papers will
submit their full paper for publication in the Conference Proceedings.
It has been planned that Key note addresses / invited talks on selected
themes, will be delivered by some of the world’s renowned scientists and
technologists. Guidelines for preparation of full paper will be
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