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Tuesday, October 7, 2008 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

1. 8:00 AM Materials Properties Evaluation of Aluminum-Magnesium-Scandium Welds by Kim N. Tran, NSWCCD, West Bethesda, MD
2. 8:30 AM Evaluation and Comparison of Laser and Arc Cladding Technologies for the Cladding of Seawater Exposed Components in Submarine Manufacture by Todd A. Palmer, Applied Research Laboratory, State College, PA, Kenneth Meinert, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and Bruce Horn, Michael Myers, and Brian Fowler, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA
3. 9:00 AM 9:00 AM Hybrid Laser Arc Welding of DH-36 and EH-36 Steel: Characterization of the Macrostructure, Mircostructure, and Welding Parameters by Caleb T. Roepke and Stephen Liu, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
4. 9:30 AM 9:30 AM Mitigating Distortion of Shipyard SAW Applications by Kevin J. Roossinck, Lee Kvidahl, and Tim Warren, Northrup Grumman Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS

1. 8:00 AM Optimizing Corrosion Performance of Welds: 6 wt% Mo Superaustenitic Stainless Steels by Andrew W. Stockdale and John DuPont, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2. 8:30 AM Effect of Welding Parameters on Duplex Stainless Steel Performance: Development of Quantitative Standards for Weldment Microstructures by Matthew Yarmuch, Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Kimberley Sandy, Master Flo Valve Inc., Edmonton, AB, Canada, and Galen Wright, G. Wright’s Welding Ltd., Edmonton, AB, Canada
3. 9:00 AM Higher Interpass Temperatures for Austenitic Stainless Steel Weldments: Increase Temperature, Increase Productivity, and Maintain Quality by Iulian Radu, PCL Industrial Contructors Inc., Nisku, Canada, Kenneth Armstrong, PCL Industrial Constructors Inc., Nisku, Canada, and Matthew Yarmuch, Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, AB, Canada
4. 9:30 AM Sulfide Stress Cracking in Welded Joint of Carbon Steel by Denyse Elaine Quinto Herrera, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia, and Gabriel Orlando Porras Arevalo, Giron, Colombia

1. 8:00 AM Post-Weld Baking Effects On Resistance Spot Weld Properties in Two Automotive High Strength Steels by Murali Tumuluru, United States Steel Corporation, Munhall, PA, and Ming Jian Hua, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA
2. 8:30 AM Performance of DP780 Single-Side Resistance Welds:Effects of Process Parameters by Ramakrishna (Rama) Koganti, Sergio Angotti, and Arnon Wexler, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, and Yan (Jack) Sang and Chonghua (Cindy) Jiang, AET Intergration, Inc., Wixom, MI
3. 9:00 AM Double-Sided Arc Welding of 5182 Aluminum Tailor Welded Blanks by Jeffrey A. Moulton and David C. Weckman, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
4. 9:30 AM Advances in Drawn-Arc Nut, Bracket & Stud Welding by Chris Hsu, Doug Phillips, and Torsten Ehrentreich, Nelson Stud Welding, Inc., Elyria, OH

1. 8:00 AM Hot Cracking Behavior of High-Purity Type 310 Stainless Steels by Kazutoshi Nishimoto and Kazuyoshi Saida, Division of Materials & Mfg Science, Graduate School of Eng.,Osaka University, Kiyoshi Kiuchi, Nuclear Science and Energy Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Junpei Nakayama, Machinery & Engineering Company, Kobe Steel, Ltd.
2. 8:30 AM Weldability Testing for Stainless Steel Laser Welds by N. Coniglio, C.E. Cross, A. Gumenyuk, and K. Stelling, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und – rüfung, Berlin, Germany, E.M. Westin, Outokumpu Stainless, Avesta Research Center, Sweden
3. 9:00 AM Evolution of microstructure and mechanical properties of the heat-affected zone in boron containing 9Cr steels by Peter Mayr. Graz University of Technology, Austria
4. 9:30 AM TBA

1. 1:30 PM Determination of the Critical Temperatures in Creep Strength Enhanced Ferritic Power Plant Steels by Jonathan Kilpatrick Tatman, Dr. Boian Alexandrov, Prof. John Lippold and Vincent Arnet, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2. 2:00 PM Microstructural Development of Single Cystral Welds by Timothy Anderson and John N. DuPont, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, and Tarasankar DebRoy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
3. 2:30 PM In-situ Thermite Welding of Boiler Tubing: A New Application for a Proven Process by John Nickell and Stephen Liu, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
4. 3:00 PM HAZ Toughness Improvement for High Strength Linepipe Steels by Christopher Penniston, Laurie Collins and Fathi Hamad, IPSCO R&D, Regina, Canada
5. 3:30 PM Thermal Analysis of Phase Transformations During Welding: Quantifying the Amount of Transformations in Welding by John W. Gibbs and Patricio F. Mendez, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
6. 4:00 PM Properties of Super Martensitic Stainless Steel Welds: Properties of Welds with Matching SMAW Electrode by Takahashi Atsushi, Material Engineering Group, EN Technology Center, Yokohama, Japan, Sasaguchi Hiroaki and Hosoya Keizo, EN Technology Center, Yokohama, Japan, and Sango Tetsuya and Saito Teiichiro, NIPPON Welding Rod Co., Hamamatsu, Japan
7. 4:30 PM Effective Grain Size of Acicular Ferrite in Ferritic Weld Metal by Hee Jin Kim, Ka-Hee Kim, Hoi Soo Ryoo, and Jun Seok Seo, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, ChonAnSi, Korea

1. 1:30 PM The Relationship between Heat Transfer and Metal Transfer in GMAW by Erik Soderstrom and Patricio Mendez, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
2. 2:00 PM Study of Hybrid Double-Sided Arc Welding by Jinsong Chen, YuMing Zhang, and Kun Qian, Center for Manufacturing, Dept. of ECE, Lexington, KY
3. 2:30 PM Heat Transfer Regions and Non-Linear Effects in Electrode Extension in GMAW: The effect of variable materials properties is quantified and generalized by Greg Lehnhoff and Patricio F. Mendez, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
4. 3:00 PM Study and Analysis of Metal Transfer Phenomena in Double-Electrode GMAW by Kehai Li, ESAB Welding and Cutting, Florence, SC
5. 3:30 PM A Process Control System in Pulse GMA Welding Al-Mg Alloys of Aircraft on the Basis of Process Stability, and Process-Integrated Quality Assurance by S. Rajasekaran, Vinayaka Missions University, Tamilnadu, India