P/M Hard Materials
The following topics will be addressed during the 20th Plansee Seminar:
| 7. | Applications | |
| 7.1. | Wear parts | |
| 7.2. | Machining of metals, composites, lightweight materials, wood, and stone | |
| 7.3. | Precision tooling | |
| 7.4. | Chipless forming | |
| 7.5. | Mining and construction | |
| 7.6. | Joining technology | |
| 7.7. | New areas | |
| 8. | Materials | |
| 8.1. | Hard compounds, binders, dopants, impurities | |
| 8.2. | New alloying concepts and material design | |
| 8.3. | Cermets | |
| 8.4. | Alternatives to hard metals | |
| 9. | Powders and P/M processes | |
| 9.1. | Powder production and processing | |
| 9.2. | Innovative production processes | |
| 9.3. | Ultrafine and nano-scaled powders and microstructures | |
| 9.4. | Additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping | |
| 9.5. | Novel compaction and sintering technologies | |
| 9.6. | Safety, environmental, and recycling aspects | |
| 10. | Surface engineering | |
| 10.1. | Coating materials and processes | |
| 10.2. | Coating/substrate interactions | |
| 10.3. | Gradient and multilayer structures | |
| 10.4. | Self-lubricating coatings | |
| 10.5. | Surface processing | |
| 11. | Simulation and Modeling | |
| 11.1. | Powders and granules | |
| 11.2. | Mechanical properties and reliability | |
| 11.3. | Constitutive and multiscale modeling | |
| 11.4. | Components and devices | |
| 11.5. | Data processing | |
| 12. | Characterization and testing | |
| 12.1. | Microstructure | |
| 12.2. | Surface characterization (coatings, interfaces, residual stresses) | |
| 12.3. | Friction and wear testing | |
| 12.4. | 3D and nanoscale characterization | |
| 12.5. | Novel methods of analysis and testing | |
| 12.6. | Mechanical testing and nondestructive testing |