EuroSPF Schedule
Event Location: Engineering & Computing Building, 11 Gulson Rd, Coventry, CV1 2JH.
Day one
| 12:00 | Delegates Arrival to ECB, Registration and lunch |
| 13:45 | Conference opening Vit Janik |
| 13:50 | Welcoming speech Richard Dashwood |
| 14:00 | Session Ti ONE – Chair: Vincent Velay |
| 14:00 | Talk 1 - J. Fonseca, The warm formability of commercial purity titanium |
| 14:30 | Talk 2 - A. Kotov, Microstructure evolution and hot deformation behaviour of the near-alpha Ti alloy |
| 15:00 | Talk 3 - J. Nunoz, On the activation energy for superplastic flow in Ti-6Al-4V |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 | Session Ti TWO – Chair: Joao Fonseca |
| 15:50 | Talk 4 - V. Velay, Effect of starting microstructure and its evolution on the mechanical behavior of Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo titanium alloy: experiment and modelling |
| 16:20 | Talk 5 - D. Gonzales, Experimental and computational analysis of Ti6Al4V under superplastic conditions |
| 16:50 | Talk 6 - R. Safiulin, Research, design and development of SPF/DB technology in IMSP RAS |
| Reception at Coventry Transportation Museum – Walking through the Coventry Cathedral grounds | |
| 18:15 | Arrival to the Coventry Transportation Museum |
| 18:45 | Reception starts |
| open from 18:00 | Free entry to the Museum during the event |
| 21:00 | Receptions ends |
Day two
| 09:00 | Sponsors showroom with Coffee open |
| 09:30 | Session Al ONE – Chair: Vit Janik |
| 09:30 | Talk 7 - M. Mohamed, Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of HFQ® process |
| 10:00 | Talk 8 - A. Kishik, Aluminium based alloy for high strain rate superplastic forming |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Session Ti THREE – Chair: Rajab Said |
| 11:00 | Talk 9 - W. Beck, Improvement potential in production of titanium sheet metal parts |
| 11:30 | Talk 10 - J. Jiang, Prediction of the superplastic forming (SPF) process of TA15 alloy sheets with equiaxed fine grain structure |
| 12:00 | Talk 11 - G. Sana, Innovative metal forming processes: an opportunity to implement R&D projects with major industrial partners, using a large dimension Hot Forming ACB Press |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Session Innovation in SPF – Chair: Anton Kotov |
| 14:00 | Talk 12 - J. Prunier, A comparative study of heat resistant steels for hot forming and superplastic forming |
| 14:30 | Talk 13 - ESI Group title TBC |
| 15:00 | Talk 14 - M. Wallis, Reducing the cost of forming with low temperature alloys |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 | Session Non-conventional materials – Chair: Werner Beck |
| 15:50 | Talk 15 - K. Morita Influence of Electric Current on High Temperature Flow Behaviour of Polycrystalline 8Y2O3-ZrO2 |
| 16:20 | Talk 16 - O. Yakovtseva Deformation mechanisms of aluminium containing brasses |
| 18:30 | Gala Dinner at St. Mary’s Guildhall |
| Student prize announcement | |
| 23:30 | Bar Closes and End |
Day three
| 09:00 | Sponsors showroom with Coffee open |
| 09:30 | Panel discussion on future of Ti SPF incl. Schuler, BAE, RR, Aurock, Timet, etc |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Panel discussion on future of Al SPF incl. Superform, Alu-SPF, Fontata, etc TBC |
| 11:30 | Conference Close |
| 11:45 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Departure to visit to Jaguar Land Rover in Solihull Coach will be arranged from 14:00-16:00. Drop off at Birmingham airport or at Coventry. |
| 15:30 | Expected end of tour |
