Refractory Metals and Composites
The following topics will be addressed during the 21st Plansee Seminar:
| 1. | Applications | |
| 1.1. | Transportation | |
| 1.2. | Electronics | |
| 1.3. | Thermal management | |
| 1.4. | Lighting technology | |
| 1.5. | Medical technology | |
| 1.6. | Energy conversion and distribution | |
| 1.7. | Radiation Shielding | |
| 1.8. | Chemical engineering | |
| 1.9 | Coating technology | |
| 1.10. | Joining technology | |
| 1.11. | Metal, glass, plastic and ceramics production | |
| 1.12. | High temperature furnaces and devices | |
| 1.13. | Emerging fields | |
| 2. | Materials | |
| 2.1. | Refractory metals and alloys, composites and functionally graded materials | |
| 2.2. | Chemically complex materials and high entropy alloys based on refractory metals | |
| 2.3. | Refractory metals based intermetallics | |
| 2.4. | Coating materials | |
| 3. | Production of Refractory Metal Powders | |
| 3.1. | Extractive metallurgy | |
| 3.2. | Refining | |
| 3.3. | Powder production processes | |
| 4. | P/M processes | |
| 4.1. | Mixing, alloying, and doping | |
| 4.2. | Compaction, forming, and near net shaping | |
| 4.3. | Additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping | |
| 4.4. | Sintering and infiltration | |
| 4.5. | Hot isostatic pressing, hot pressing and field assisted sintering | |
| 4.6. | Novel consolidation processes | |
| 4.7. | Surface engineering and coating | |
| 4.8. | Joining | |
| 5. | Joining | |
| 6. | Surface Engineering and Coating | |
| 7. | Simulation and Modeling | |
| 7.1. | Materials and microstructure | |
| 7.2. | Stresses and deformation | |
| 7.3. | Failure and reliability | |
| 7.4. | Oxidation and corrosion | |
| 7.5. | Atomistic, constitutional and multi scale modeling | |
| 7.6 | Components and devices | |
| 7.7. | Artificial intelligence in material development | |
| 8. | Characterization and Testing | |
| 8.1. | Microstructure | |
| 8.2. | 3D and nanoscale characterization | |
| 8.3. | Destructive and non-destructive testing | |
| 9. | Sustainability | |
| 9.1. | Health and safety | |
| 9.2. | Life cycle management | |
| 9.3. | Recycling technologies | |
| 9.4. | Environmental aspects | |
| 9.5. | Novel approaches |