Advanced Structural Materials - 2014: Volume 1765

Symposium 4A: 'Advanced Structural Materials' of the XXIII International Materials Research Congress was held August 17-21, 2014.

1. Microstructural, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of ferritic stainless steel welded by GTAW and coated by flame spraying; 2. Principles of technology and mechanical properties of structural ceramics based on the ternary system SiC-B4C-CrB2; 3. Removal of organic phase in alumina parts by thermal treatment; 4. Metallurgical by-product transformation and its plasma modification to increase HDPE thermal conductivity; 5. An innovative process for synthesis of carbon-base nanostructure materials using a solid-state route; 6. Building of protective coating against corrosion by flame spraying of mechanofused composite particles; 7. Self-mobility system design for paraplegic patients; 8. Numerical analysis applied to nonlinear problems; 9. Dry sliding wear behavior of a high-Mn austenitic twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steel microalloyed with Ti; 10. Structure evolution of thermotropic polymers by thermal annealing. A light and x-ray scattering study; 11. Ceramic refractory compositions with biosolubility characteristics; 12. Influence of glassy additives on the formation of crystalline phases in sintered red ceramic bodies; 13. Selective laser sintering of Al2O3-Al powder compacts; 14. Influence of boron on the precipitation kinetics in advanced ultra-high strength steels; 15. Boron effect on the softening parameter (¿) of advanced ultra-high strength steels (A-UHSS) under uniaxial hot-compression conditions; 16. Microstructure and crystallographic texture development of microalloyed twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steels under uniaxial hot-tensile conditions; 17. CO2 chemisorption on Li5AlO4: effects of sodium and potassium carbonate addition; 18. Defining borders of vitrification region in the Li2O·B2O3-B2O3-Yb2O3·B2O3 system; 19. Influence of heat treatments on a NiTi shape memory alloy obtained using vacuum induction melting and reprocessed by plasma skull push-pull; 20. Determination of recrystallization kinetics and activation energy of grain growth process of Cu-14Al-4Ni shape memory alloy; 21. Effect of molecular weight on mesomorphic behavior of side-chain liquid-crystalline azopolymers; 22. Experimental and theoretical study on melting kinetics of spherical aluminum particles in liquid aluminum; 23. Preparation and characterization of ZSM-5 zeolites modified with titanium and iron by direct synthesis; 24. Experimental study of tungsten inert gas pulsed welding applied to Ni-Ti shape memory alloy wires.