International Symposium on Advances in Metallurgy
Introduction
This symposium is to provide a platform to researchers, engineers and students working in metallurgy and related disciplines to meet and exchange recent findings and ideas in metallurgy. It will address alloy design, fabrication (such as additive manufacturing), microstructure control and property engineering, to material characterisation and multi-scale modelling. The aim is to enhance material performance and ensure the safety of metallic materials in a range of applications from infrastructure for sustainable futures to critical components in power plants, automobiles and aerospace.
Programme Outline
The symposium will take place from Thursday 3rd July to Friday 4th July 2025.
Day 1 - Thursday 3rd July 2025
Celebrate outstanding contributions made by Prof. Fionn Dunne in crystal plasticity modelling and micro-mechanics to advancing our fundamental understanding in metallurgy, and enhancing the performance and safety of metallic systems.
Day 2 - Friday 4th July 2025
Cover broadly topics in metallurgy with focuses on alloy design, solidification, additive manufacturing, material degradation, materials for nuclear energy, characterisation and sustainability in metallurgy.
Programme
Thursday 3rd July 2025
Time |
Location |
Speaker, affiliation |
Title |
Session chair |
| 08:30 | G20 | – | Coffee and welcome | |
| 09:00 | G20 | Prof. Sandrine Heutz, Imperial College London | Opening remarks from Head of Department | Prof. Gourlay |
| 09:10 | Prof. Fionn Dunne, Imperial College London | Hydrides in Zircaloy-4 under thermomechanical cyclic loading: characterisation, experiment and crystal plasticity modelling | ||
| 09:30 | Prof. Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins | Machine Learning Enabled Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive Models (PUCM) for Multiscale Analysis of Fatigue Nucleation in Ti Alloys | ||
| 09:50 | Dr. Chris Hardie, UKAEA | Crystal plasticity modelling of strain localisation after irradiation: Zircaloy-4 | ||
| 10:10 | Prof. Mike Sangid, Purdue University | Rapid qualification of additive manufactured materials through microstructure-sensitive modeling | ||
| 10:30 | G01 | – | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 | G20 | Dr. Jun Jiang, Imperial College London | Micromechanics of Fatigue and Interfaces: A Journey from Crack Nucleation to Solid-State Joining | Dr. Pedrazzini |
| 11:10 | Prof. Esteban Busso, Harbin Insttitute of Technology | On the Use of Coupled Phase Field - Crystal Plasticity Thermodynamic Frameworks to Study Intergranular Creep Damage in High temperature Alloys | ||
| 11:30 | Prof. Jean-Yves Buffiere, INSA Lyon | Influence of environment on the deformation mechanisms at the tip of internal fatigue cracks in Ti64 alloy | ||
| 11:50 | Dr. Minh-Son Pham, Imperial College London | From crystal plasticity analysis of TiAl to TiAl-like metamaterials with programmable responses | ||
| 12:10 | G01 | – | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | G20 | Dr. Kate Fox, Rolls-Royce | Insights from advanced characterisation and modelling tools to support understanding of aero-engine Titanium component behaviour | Prof. Dye |
| 13:20 | Dr. Yilun Xu, A*STAR - Singapore | Multi-scale deformation and damage of advanced alloys subject to multi-physics | ||
| 13:40 | Prof. Sean Leen, University of Galway | Towards a methodology for thickness effect on fatigue crack initiation in TMCP welded structural steels for offshore wind turbines | ||
| 14:00 | Dr. Zebang Zheng, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ | Multiscale modeling and experimental insights into twin-induced deformation in HCP crystals | ||
| 14:20 | G01 | – | Coffee break (+joined by Dept) | |
| 14:50 | G20 | Dr. Ed Tarleton,University of Oxford | Using mechanical equilibrium to correct HR-EBSD stress measurements | Dr. Ackerman |
| 15:10 | Dr. Yang Liu, Leicester University | Explore the Micromechanics in Zircaloy-4 as Nuclear Fission Rods | ||
| 15:30 | Prof. Daniele Dini, Imperial College London | TBA | ||
| 15:50 | Prof. Chris Gourlay, Imperial College London | Concluding remarks | ||
16:00 |
Albert Hall |
Group photo |
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| 16:15 | G01 | – | Drinks and poster session | |
| 17:30 | – | – | Leave conference venue for dinner | |
18:30 |
Ironmongers' Hall |
Conference dinner & Poster prizes |
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Friday 4th July 2025
Time |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title |
| Session | Solidification, RSM G20 - Chair: Prof. Chris Gourlay | Session | Fission Materials, RSM G06 - Chair: Dr. Felicity Worsnop | |||
| 09:00 | Hongbiao Dong | University of Leicester | Machine Learning of Metal Processing - Challenges and Opportunities | Ben Jenkins | University of Oxford |
Cracking the Mechanisms of RPV Embrittlement with Atom Probe and Advanced Techniques |
| 09:20 | Enzo Liotti | University of Oxford | Artificial Intelligence X-ray Imaging for metal solidification | Mia Maric | University of Manchester |
Developing a novel method to characterise the multidimensional nature of zirconium hydrides by employing 3D-EBSD |
| 09:40 | Catherine Tonry | University of Greenwich | Modelling Ultrasonic Treatment of Alloy Melts | Yu Lung Chiu | University of Birmingham | Radiation damage in steel and tungsten for fusion applications |
| 10:00 | Nils Warnken | University of Birmingham | Studies on microstructure formation in technical alloys | Tomas Martin | University of Bristol |
Understanding materials degradation in past, present and future nuclear reactors using correlative microscopy |
| 10:20 | Mark Jolly | Cranfield University |
Using CFD to understand sedimentation of inclusions in a new casting process for Al alloy aerospace castings |
Ben Poole | UKAEA | Less than ideal: microstructural length scale plasticity in copper-base alloys |
| 10:40 | Coffee - RSM G01 | |||||
| Session | Additive Manufacturing, RSM G20 - Chair: Dr. Son Pham | Session | Aerospace Metallurgy, RSM G06 - Chair: Prof. David Dye | |||
| 11:00 | Stewart Williams | Cranfield University | Microstructure and property control in large scale additive manufacture | Ian Edmonds | Rolls Royce | Intermediate temperature damage mechanisms in single crystal superalloys |
| 11:20 | Duyao Zhang | Univeristy of Bath | Stronger alloys via grain refinement in additive manufacturing | Samuel Hemery | Institut P', ENSMA |
Low-stress deformation and early fracture at basal twist grain boundaries in titanium alloys |
| 11:40 | Bianca Maria Colosimo | Politechnico di Milano |
AI approaches for cross-material transfer learning and microstructure data mining in additive manufacturing |
Peter Lee | UCL |
Optimising Laser Additive Manufacturing Processes using Multi-modal Correlative Imaging and Simulation |
| 12:00 | Sravya Tekumalla | University of Victoria | 3D Microstructural Fingerprints of Additively manufactured Alloys | Howard Stone | University of Cambridge | Examples of interesting precipitation phenomena |
| 12:20 | Thomas Klein | Austrian Institute of Tech. | Wire-arc directed energy deposition of advanced titanium alloys | Philippa Reed | Southampton |
Microstructural orientation and environmental effects on crack growth mechanisms and associated path development in nickel base superalloys |
| 12:40 | Lunch - RSM G01 | |||||
| Session | Fusion Materials, RSM G20 - Chair: Prof. Mark Wenman | Session | Corrosion, RSM G06 - Chair: Dr. Stella Pedrazzini | |||
| 13:20 | Jack Haley | UKAEA | NEURONE | Mary Taylor | Univeristy of Birmingham | TBD |
| 13:40 | Philipp Frankel | University of Manchester | MIDAS programme | Cynthia Rodenkirchen | Imperial College London | TBD |
| 14:00 | Dave Armstrong | University of Oxford | Liquid Lithium Corrosion of Structural Fusion Reactor Materials | Hazel Gardner | UKAEA | TBD |
| 14:20 | Christos Skamniotis | KCL | Zr hydrides | Tamsin Whitfield | University of Oxford | TBD |
| 14:40 | Dave Lunt | UKAEA | Creep rig | TBA | TBA | |
| 15:00 | Coffee - RSM G01 | |||||
| Session | Additive Manufacturing, RSM G20 - Chair: Dr. Nima Haghdadi | Session | Sustainable Metallurgy, RSM G06 - Chair: Dr. Abigail Ackerman | |||
| 15:20 | Catrin Davies | Imperial College London |
Data-Driven Approach to Structural Property Prediction for AM Components |
Claire Davis | Warwick University | Sustainable steel |
| 15:40 | Bo Chen | Univ of Southampton |
Accelerating Materials Innovation: Reimagining TiAl Alloys for Additive Manufacturing |
Dmitry Eskin | Brunel University | Ultrasonic melt processing: highlights of fundamentals and applications |
| 16:00 | Iain Todd | University of Sheffield |
Additive Manufacture - Don’t blame the alloys - it’s just the way they are made |
Biao Cai | University of Birmingham | Stepping into sustainable physical metallurgy, where to begin? |
| 16:20 | Moataz Attallah | University of Birmingham | The Alloy Awakens: Metallurgical Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing | Kathy Christofidou | University of Sheffield |
Sustainable Alloy Design and Advanced Manufacturing: Balancing Performance and Environmental Impact |
| 16:40 | Roger Reed | University of Birmingham | An Example of Additive Manufacturing for Human Implants | Livia Cupertino Malheiros | Imperial College London | Hydrogen Embrittlement of Low-Alloy Tempered Martensitic Steels |
| 17:00 | Closing remarks and Finish (17:10) | |||||
Location and Venue
The symposium will take place in the Royal School of Mines (RSM), Imperial College London in South Kensington, London. The location is well connected by public transportation. The RSM is about 10 minutes on foot from the South Kensington station that is served by three underground lines: Circle, District and Piccadilly. The Piccadilly line is a service directly connecting the Heathrow airport to the South Kensington.
Accommodation
There are a number of accommodation options close to the symposium. On campus accommodation is available, which can be booked here.
Additionally, there are available discounted rates at the following options:
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Booking rate information
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Imperial College preferential rates available. Please contact the EA team for further information here.
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Imperial College preferential rates available. Please contact the EA team for further information here.
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Registration
Registration is now closed.
Poster
Posters must be portrait orientation, up to A0 size.
Organising Committee
Engineering Alloys team
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/engineering-alloys/
Department of Materials
Imperial College London