Conference Description
The
understanding of the reactivity between functional or structural materials with
their environment at high temperature is a key of progress for many industrial
applications. This understanding needs to be taken into account in the design
of new alloys, composites and systems. It allows the materials optimization and
the quantitative prediction of their behavior and lifetime. Therefore, it is
essential to the optimization of the use of raw materials and energy resources.
High
temperature corrosion is a very complex science dealing with gas, solids and
sometimes liquids. All
aspects of the phenomena need to be taken into account, including
thermodynamics, transport phenomena, reaction kinetics, mechanical behavior and
multiphysical couplings. Moreover, industrial
applications often deal with complex gas mixtures, sometimes out of
equilibrium, and complex materials with more than 10 chemical species and varying
microstructures. Therefore a wide range of studies is necessary from the atomic to the macroscopic scale, on both
model and complex systems.
Current issues include the understanding of corrosion mechanisms
in aggressive environments including hot corrosion, carburization and metal
dusting, corrosion in mixed oxidants, water vapor and supercritical fluids.
Interactions with mechanical loading and other physical properties need to be
assessed. The way to use this knowledge in high temperature materials
development, protection solutions -including coating developments-, time of
life modelling and recycling solutions, building of databases and the prediction
of corrosion behavior from many parameters in complex systems needs to be
improved.
New manufacturing processes, especially from powders, and
for example, additive manufacturing brings new areas of
study with emphasis on the effect of alloy
microstructure, segregations, internal stresses and surface roughness. The development of new characterization and
modelling tools allows opportunities to revisit older
knowledge and to open new research areas.
The objective of the conference is to present the most
recent findings in the fundamental understanding of both simple and complex
systems, making use of the most recent advances in material characterization
and modelling.
The lecture speakers are all invited. They are chosen for
their expertise, recent research advances, and novelty of approach. The
lectures are provided with extensive time for discussion in morning and
evening, and the late afternoon and evening is for poster sessions. All delegates are encouraged to submit posters on their own work in order to facilitate a
lively exchange of information.
All stay in college dormitories, have meals together, and
socialize during the free periods in the afternoon and the late evening. This
environment provides an international and diverse forum for scientific
discussion, to develop innovative ideas. This GRC format is particularly
beneficial for graduate students and other young researchers because of the
ready access to the leaders in the field from around the world. Moreover, the
2017 GRC will be preceded by the High Temperature
Corrosion Gordon Research Seminar
(GRS) for graduate students
and postdoctoral scientists, in order
to encourage early career researchers in this field.
