TMS 2005 Multicomponent Multiphase Diffusion Symposium
in Honor of John E. Morral

San Francisco, CA, Feb 14-16, 2005

Monday, Feb. 14, 2005

Analysis of Interdiffusion Microstructures: Session I

• Diffusion Paths and Interdiffusion Microstructures: Applications and Remaining Challenges (J. E. Morral, Ohio State University)
  

• Canonical Phase Diagrams (John W. Cahn, NIST)
  

• Application of Diffusion Path Analysis in Determination of Phase Formation and Phase Diagrams (J-C. Zhao, GE Global Research Center)
  

• Observations and Analysis of Interdiffusion Phenomena in Selected Multicomponent Systems (Mysore A. Dayananda, Purdue University)
  

• Assessment of Analytical Methods for the Determination of Composition-Dependent Interdiffusion Coefficients in Ternary Alloys (Narayana Garimella, University of Central Florida)
  

• Microstructural Evolution in Interdiffusion Zones and its Effect on Diffusion Paths (Yunzhi Wang, Ohio State University)
  

• Trans-Interface Diffusion-Controlled Coarsening (A. J. Ardell, University of California)
  

Analysis of Interdiffusion Microstructures: Session II

• A Model for the Lateral Deformation of Diffusion Couples (W.J. Boettinger, NIST)

• Teaching the Square-Root Diffusivity Method (Martin E. Glicksman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  

• Implementing the Square-Root Diffusivity Method (Afina Lupulescu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  

• Test of Darken's Mobility Assumption in the Cu-Ni-Zn System (Robert T. DeHoff, University of Florida and Nagraj S. Kulkarni, ORNL)
  

Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005

Experimental Methods for Determining Diffusion Mechanisms

• Effects of Composition on Kinetics of Intermetallic Layer Growth for Soldered Copper Alloys (Evan K. Ohriner, ORNL)

• A Novel Double-Layered Titanium Boride Coating on Titanium: Kinetics of Boron Diffusion and Coating Development (Nishant M. Tikekar, University of Utah)

• Diffusion Mechanism in Two-Phase Intermetallic Titanium Aluminde Alloys (Fritz Appel, GKSS Research Center)

• Grain Boundary Diffusion of Fe and Co in High Purity Iron (Akiko Inoue, Tohoku University)

• Precipitation-Strenghtened Al-Sc-Ti Alloys Studied by Three Dimensional Atom Probe Microscopy (Marsha E. van Dalen, Northwestern University)

• Diffusion in Al-Ni-Ce Melts (Axel Griesche, Hahn-Meitner-Institute)

Diffusion in Oxide Systems

• Diffusion and Interface Stability During Solid-State Displacement Reactions (S.N.S. Reddy, IBM)

• Uphill Diffusion and Zero Flux Planes in Garnets: An Experimental and ATEM Study (D. Vielzeuf)

• Internal Displacement Reactions in Multicomponent Oxide Solid Solutions (S. N. S. Reddy, IBM)

• Oxygen Diffusivity in Nonstoichiometric Cerium Dioxide (Petrica Cristea, LANL)

• Simulations of High Temperature Internal Oxidation (Yali Li, University of Connecticut)

• Anomalous Oxidation of Ferritic Stainless Steels in Air/Hydrogen Fuel Dual Enviroments (Z. Gary Yang, PNNL)

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2005

Computational Tools for Understanding Diffusion Mechanisms

• Effective Diffusivity of Heterigeneous Systems (Y. Mishin, George Mason University)

• A Self-Consistent Mean-Field Model for Strongly Concentration Dependent Phenomenological Coefficients: Application to Interdiffusion Kinetics (Vincent Barbe, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique)

• Reversible and Irreversible Reaction Fronts in Quaischemical Theory of the Multicomponent Diffusion (Misha Sinder, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

• Dynamics-Based Microstructural Design in Multicomponent Alloys (Greg Olson, Northwestern University/QuesTek)

• Analysis of Cu-Ni-Zn Ternary Diffusion Couples Using MultiDiFlux Program (Kevin Day, Purdue University)

• Effects of Concentration-Dependence of the Effective Diffusivity on Diffusion Paths in Two-Phase Ternary Systems (Hongwei Yang, University of Connecticut)

• Diffusion in fcc an L1(2)Phases of Ni-Al-Mo (T. Wang, Pennsylvania State University)

Applications of Multicomponent Multiphase Diffusion

• Multicomponent Diffusion Effects in Joints of Dissimilar Materials - Engineering Applications (John Agren, KTH)

• Indirect Paths to Final Equilibrium: Kinetics in Multicomponent Systems (J. M. Vitek, ORNL)

• Simulation of Solution Treatment in Multicomponent Aluminum Alloy Castings (Harold D. Brody, University of Connecticut)

• Carburization Process Modeling (Richard D. Sisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

• Denisfication of Powdered Steels Preforms by Liquid-Stell Infiltration (Samuel M. Allen, MIT)

• Interdiffusion and High Temperature Coatings for Gas Turbine Applications (Jing Liu, University of Central Florida)

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