We would like to inform you that we are organizing a mini-symposium on ‘Routes to Bulk Nanomaterials’ as part of the International Symposium PLASTICITY 2009 to be held at the Frenchman's Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands), on January 3-8, 2009.
The mini-symposium will address the manufacturing of bulk nanomaterials for structural applications and their mechanical properties, with a focus on modelling and numerical simulations at all relevant length and time scales. Established processing routes leading to ultrafine or nanocrystalline grain structure, such as equal channel angular pressing, accumulated roll bonding, high pressure torsion and other severe plastic deformation techniques, are well within the scope of the mini-symposium. Other processes involving compaction of nanopowders or nanostructuring of the near-surface regions of a structural member are also considered as relevant to its theme.
The PLASTCITY 2009 web is http://www.internationalplasticity.com/indexST2.html .
The deadline for half-page abstract subission is March 1, 2008
Yuri Estrin (yuri.estrin [at] eng.monash.edu.au (yuri[dot]estrin[at]eng[dot]monash[dot]edu[dot]au)) and Hyoung Seop Kim (hskim [at] postech.ac.kr (hskim[at]postech[dot]ac[dot]kr))