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Publish Date: 2015/10/15
Volume: 68, Issue: 6, Pages: 999-999
Abstract
We are pleased to bring out this special issue of Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals containing the proceedings of some of the papers presented in the Sixth International Conference on Solidification Science and Processing ICSSP62015 being held in Hyderabad during November 24–27 2015 To take stock of the current trends in solidification of materials International Conference on Solidification Science and Processing ICSSP a triennial international conference is being organized since 2001 In this series the ICSSP62015 is organized by Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory DMRL Hyderabad belonging to the Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO Ministry of Defence Govt of India The conference is chaired by Professor Lars Arnberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU Trondhein Norway and convened by Professor Amol A Gokhale Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay Mumbai formerly Director of DMRL HyderabadThe ICSSP62015 is scheduled to have 72 oral presentations the largest thus far by eminent personalities of international acclaim and 57 poster presentations by young researchers This conference has made no exception to the unwritten rule followed thus far in the series of having invited oral and contributed poster presentations The primary objective of the conference is to bring together engineers scientists academicians and research scholars from various countries working in different areas of solidification and promote mutual interaction to review new challenges in this field Such an interaction is expected to improve synergy between diverse research groups based on complimentary interests and catalyze collaborative researchThe ICSSP6 proceedings which are brought out as a special publication of Transactions of Indian Institute of Metals TIIM supported by Springer consists of 40 manuscripts from the papers presented at the conference These manuscripts have been accepted for publication after a thorough scrutiny by a panel of distinguished international reviewers This special issue is also made available online from TIIM website We hope that by publication in the Transactions ICSSP62015 proceedings too achieve the archival value that it meritsThe topics covered in this issue include fundamentals of solidification microstructural evolution and modification during solidification application of computational tools to understand solidification science and advanced solidification processing in situ observations during solidification solidification of Al alloys Mg alloys metal matrix composites metal foams bulk metallic glasses nanocrystals and high entropy alloys rapid solidification and semi solid processing As you go through this issue you will see articles covering different aspects of solidification starting from fundamentals to advanced applicationsThanks are due to all the authors for contributing their latest work Special thanks go to reviewers for their critical review which has helped in maintaining the high standards of the journal We express our sincere gratitude to all the editorial staff of the Trans IIM and Springer for their immense support in making this special issue possible within a very short period of time for distribution during the conference
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