The ATM, as usual, will comprise both oral and poster sessions. About 150-175 papers will be presented over two days in three parallel sessions and the remaining papers will be in the form of posters. The following is an indicative list of subjects on which papers can be submitted:
Ironmaking including coke, sinter and other raw materials.
Steelmaking including process kinetics, process control and automation.
Extraction and processing of other metals like Zinc, Coppers, Titanium, etc.
Modelling of processing of iron and steel and other metals.
Mineral beneficiation and agglomeration.
Emerging trends in materials processing including bio-beneficiation, chemical leaching, etc.
Energy, environment, waste management and recycling.
Casting, solidification, hot rolling and cold rolling.
Heat treatment including annealing.
Bulk and sheet metal forming including microforming.
Phase transformations, thermodynamics and diffusion.
Mechanical behaviour including structure-property correlations.
Characterisation of materials.
Corrosion, wear and tribology.
Surface engineering including coatings.
Failure analysis including fatigue, fracture, etc.
Non-destructive testing and evaluation.
Metallic glasses, mechanical alloying and rapid solidification processing.
Development of new materials including materials for space applications.
Development of materials for the automobile and white goods industry.
Development, processing and application of nanomaterials.
Microstructural engineering and design of new materials including microstructure sensitive design.
Materials modelling including first principle calculations.
Metal joining techniques including welding.
Powder metallurgy and sintered products.