ACRL/SSM Winter Meeting

December 6 - 7, 2000
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Higgins Labs Room 218

Agenda

Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Time	Event
7:45 - 8 a.m.	Registration
8 - 8:30 a.m.	Welcome/Opening Remarks D. Apelian, Director, MPI R. Donahue, Chair, ACRL Steering Committee R. DasGupta, Chair, SSM Steering Committee
8:30 - 8:45 a.m.	Research Agenda - Overview M. Makhlouf and A. Alexandrou
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.	Effect of Key Elements on the Feeding Characteristics of Aluminum Alloys Manas Dash
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.	Fatigue Performance Interactions in Aluminum Casting Alloys - Phase II Diana Lados
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	Evolution of the Eutectic Microstructure During Solidification of Al/Si Alloys Hema Guthy
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 - 11 a.m.	Feasibility of Grain Refining Aluminum Using Vapor Phase Nasim Alem
11 - 11:30 a.m	Casting Characteristics of Aluminum Die Casting Alloys (DOE) Libo Wang
11:30- 11:45 a.m.	Electronic Database for Rapid Selection of Al Die Casting Alloys (AMC)
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	Pre-Launch and Management Issues Facing the Metal Casting Industry C. Kasouf
12:15 - 12:45 p.m.	Break
12:45 - 2:30 p.m.	Working Lunch and Focus Group Meetings "Evolution of the Eutectic Microstructure During Solidification of Al/Si Alloys" Room HL 218 "Fatigue Performance Interactions in Aluminum Casting Alloys - Phase II" Room HL 102
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.	Focus Groups "Effect of Key Elements on the Feeding Characteristics of Aluminum Alloys" Room HL 218 "Feasibility of Grain Refining Aluminum Using Vapor Phase" Room HL 102
5:15 - 6 p.m.	Focus Groups "Casting Characteristics of Aluminum Die Casting Alloys" and "Electronic Database for Rapid Selection of Al Die Casting Alloys" Room HL 102
6:15 - 7:15 p.m.	Reception at the Worcester Art Museum 55 Salisbury St., Worcester, MA Please enter at the Lancaster Street entrance Exhibit: "Antioch - the Lost Ancient City"
7:30 p.m.	Dinner at the Worcester Art Museum
Thursday, December 7, 2000
Time	Event
7:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8 - 8:15 a.m.	Overview of SSMC Projects Andreas Alexandrou
8:15 - 8:45 a.m.	Modeling of SSM - Recent Developments Andreas Alexandrou
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.	Yield Stress Measurements and Microstructure Evolution Qingyue Pan, Diran Apelian
9:15 - 9:45 a.m.	(Microstructure Evolution) - title TBA Mert Flemings, MIT
9:45 - 10:15 a.m.	(Shear Measurement) - title TBA Mert Flemings, MIT
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 - 11 a.m.	SSM Alloy Development Srinath Viswanathan, ORNL
11 - 11:30 a.m.	Heat Treatment Response Jason Astle
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.	Three Parallel Focus Group Meetings (Box lunches to be provided.) Modeling Activities with A. Alexandrou Higgins Labs 102 Yield Stress and Microstructure Development with D. Apelian and M. C. Flemings Higgins Labs 201 Alloy Development and Heat Treat Response with S. Viswanathan Higgins Labs 154
1 p.m.	Adjourn

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