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PROCESSES
SELF-REDUCTION AND COLD SINTERING
Coordinator: José Carlos D’Abreu - PUC-RJ
Scope: Some emerging technologies for production of primary iron are already being deployed, such as Self-Reduction, which uses cold sintering agglomerate and self-reduction mixes. Brazil has a leadership position for this technology, considering knowledge generation and corporate initiatives for its usage. Along with this development, AMB Seminars for this subject area, since its 58th Annual Conference, have been establishing as an equally pioneering initiative worldwide.
Considering these facts, next "IV Seminário de Auto-Redução" (IV Self-Reduction Seminar) by ABM shall be aimed to provide a discussion forum about raw materials preparation, agglomerate resistance and its microstructural bindings, besides all thermodynamic, cinematic and fluid dynamic aspects of the technologic process, through its physical and mathematical modeling, as well as the related environmental impacts – which conferred to this promising technology a distinguished status. Last, but not least, a homage will be paid to Prof. Carlos Dias Brosch, pioneer on studying Self-Reduction in Brazil, to whom the "IV Seminário de Auto-Redução e Aglomeração a Frio", in ABM Conference – 2006, will be dedicated.
STAMPING
Coordinator: Geraldo Iran S. Cardoso - CST
Scope: Disclose industrial results, academic and fundamental studies, R&D projects, mathematical modeling, process simulation, and physical metallurgy, related to stamping of metals and its alloys. These include industry and laboratory processes and product development aspects related to steel and non-metallic alloys stamping.
FORGING
Coordinator: Lírio Schaeffer - UFRGS
Scope: Works submitted to the Forging subject area shall approach materials, tooling design, and equipment. Concerning materials, emphasis will be placed on those papers about minimization of thermal treatments and study of microstructures for cost reduction and mechanical properties improvement. Regarding tooling design, emphasis will be placed on papers which demonstrate the usage of computer simulation, focused on data related to the properties of the materials used. For equipment, innovations have priority.
WASTE RECOVERY AND TREATMENT
Coordinator: Luis Cláudio P. Oliveira – MULTISERV
Scope: In order to support the growth of Brazilian ironworks and give it sustainability, it is essential to combine efforts from industry, technology and academic sectors to describe precisely the environmental questions arising from such growth. Among the environmental issues faced by ironworks, the deployment of a waste management model in line with the legal and normative requirements is stressed. An essential part of waste management involves waste recovery and treatment, since in most cases, its reuse requires processing to change its characteristics, thus allowing its usage instead of unused raw materials. Hence, this seminar aims to discuss proposals and methodologies which confer the desired sustainability to Ironworks sector.
WELDING
Coordinator: Valter Rocha dos Santos - PUC-RJ
Scope: Nowadays, welding is one of the most important areas for metallic structures and components manufacturing. Several thermal, physical, chemical, and specially metallurgic phenomena are related to welding and determine the properties of welded joints. Due to the impacts of such complex interactions, innovative welding processes, welding metallurgy concepts and welding physics concepts have been arising or have been increasingly adopted as a reference for metallic components manufacturing, in which new materials are required. In this sense, a great deal of works have been developed concerning welding of new materials, which involve a precise control of their microstructure, such as alloys with ultra-high yielding strength. New welding processes are being researched and developed. Their application by means of mechanical and automated systems, as well as robots, has caused welding to get increasingly indispensable.
MINERAL TECHNOLOGY
Coordinator: Armando Correa de Araújo - UFMG
Scope: Mineral Technology approaches all studies directly related to the obtention of products which are appropriate to usage as raw materials in metallurgy and chemical processes. It is a well known subject area, remarkably multidisciplinary, which includes processes ranging from mineral resources identification to the enriched products manufacturing, or, in some cases, practically pure. In Brazil, Mineral Technology has been mainly characterized by measures and research development within the scope of mineral processing in its wide sense, involving single operations for raw material preparation, mineral concentration (separation) and pre-products obtention by means of hydrometallurgical routes, pyrometallurgical routes, and so on. In Brazil, there are several excellence centers for research and development; so, we expect a large number of high quality technical papers for the annual conference, in order to get a relevant contribution to the subject area. Among the areas highlighted here, iron ores, copper ores, industrial minerals (mainly caulim and fertilizers) and gold can be mentioned.
THERMAL TREATMENT AND SURFACE ENGINEERING
Coordinator: Eliana Bezerra M. Netto - BRASIMET
Scope: Thermal treatment and surface engineering processes provide specific improvement to material properties in a wide range of applications. Both knowledge fields are comprehensive and involve a series of theoretical concepts and practices, which range from material selection to monitoring and control processes. The new processes, metallic alloys, process simulation, definition of treated and lined materials; the new technologies applied to furnaces, atmospheres, and quenching media; as well as PVD and CVD lining equipment, are part of the scope. Due to the great interest from industry and academic area, this subject area has an expressive participation of researchers, students and professionals from metallic material components, tooling, production and application industries.
DRAWING
Coordinator: Paulo Roberto Cetlin - UFMG
Scope: Works on drawing shall approach several aspects related to the theme, ranging from raw material (barns and machine-thread), raw material surface preparation (chemical and mechanical scouring and surface preparation), the process itself (equipment, operation problems, new developments), lubrication (soaps and emulsions), product properties (physical and shape properties), final usage of drawn materials. |
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