Track Chair:

Dr. Alexey Salimon, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation
Email: a.salimon@skoltech.ru | Website

Co-Chairs:

• Dr. Kalin Dragnevsky, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
  Email: kalin.dragnevski@eng.ox.ac.uk | Website
• Jingwei Chen
• Prof. Aleksandar Sedmak, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  Email: asedmak@mas.bg.ac.rs | Website

The development of key modern engineering materials is a result of massive efforts directed towards thorough experimental characterization of multiple material’ subsystems at hierarchically ordered scale levels (from atomic level of 0,1 nm to engineering level of hundreds and thousands of mm) and theoretical understanding (very often through a mulitiphysical computer simulation) of complex interactions of structure elements. Rational matching and grounded correlation of the experimental and theoretical datasets bring much deeper insight in fabrication-structure-properties-performance interrelation making material’ processing and modification more efficient and straightforward. This track addresses and welcomes reports devoted to experimental and theoretical studies of traditional and cutting-edge developing materials (natural, engineering materials, hierarchical structures, composites, coatings, multilayer sandwiches etc.) which were purposefully designed by a community of mechanical engineers, materials scientists, technologists and application engineers. Microstructure, micromechanics, high time and space resolution characterization, operando studies constitute incomplete list of issues of significant interest.

 

Background: Nowadays fast progress of characterization and simulation techniques paves the way towards the resolution of traditional Materials Science problems and critical reassessment of established views on phase and structure transformations; elastic, plastic, creep and fracture behavior of inhomogeneous materials; generation and growth of microstructural defects; surface phenomena and many others.

Subject: Developing materials, advances in experimental structure and properties characterization, data matching and correlation.

Research Hotpot:

Rational experimental-computational correlation and problems of materials’ performance prediction fidelity.

Topics

• Residual stress evaluation – modelling, measurements, methods, applications.
• Additive manufacturing – modelling of thermal history, structure and properties predictions, topological optimizations.
• Bimetals and metal-ceramic hybrids: coatings, composites, sandwiches – interface problems and failure mechanisms.
• Energy storage materials – mechanisms of structure degradation and charge-power decay.
• Developing materials – problems of structure integrity.