The inaugural International Materials Applications and Technologies (IMAT) 2020 Conference, ASM International’s Annual Meeting, originally scheduled for September 14–17, 2020, in Cleveland, Ohio, made the difficult decision to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, ASM was proud to present IMAT – The Virtual Edition on October 26–28, 2020.
Shape Memory and Superelasticity was pleased to be a part of virtual IMAT by hosting a session on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. The session was hosted by journal editor-in-chief, Huseyin Sehitoglu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and included six prerecorded presentations, each followed by a live question and answer session with the presenter.
The presentations were:
Title: Strain-sensitive Topological Evolution of Twin Boundaries
Speaker: Huseyin Sehitoglu
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: High-Temperature Shape Memory Alloys – Recent developments and future perspectives
Speaker: Hans J. Maier
Affiliation: Institut für Werkstoffkunde (Materials Science), Leibniz Universität Hannover, An der Universität 2, 30823 Garbsen, Germany
Title: Martensitic phase transformations of NiTi nanocrystals
Speaker: Thomas Waitz
Affiliation: University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Physics of Nanostructured Materials, Vienna, Austria
Title: Lattice defects generated by cyclic thermomechanical loading of nanocrystalline NiTi wires
Speaker: Petr Sittner
Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Title: The (20-1)-interfaces in plastically formed NiTi martensite – twins or ‘kwinks’?
Speaker: Hanus Seiner
Affiliation: Institute of Thermomechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Title: Martensite as a Key to Unlock the Ideal Strength in Solids
Speaker: Yinong Liu
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
