AWS Professional Program and Poster Session

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Monday - Wednesday, November 16-18, 2009

The AWS Professional Program will be an important part of the 2009 FABTECH International & AWS Welding Show. Abstracts are peer-reviewed by the AWS Technical Papers Committee.

3-day Professional Program
Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $225
Nonmember: $360 (Code W34)

3-day Student Professional Program
Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $75
Nonmember: $90 (Code W35)

1-day Professional Program
(Monday [W31], Tuesday [W32] or Wednesday [W33] only) Member of AWS, FMA, SME, NAM, or PMA: $150
Nonmember: $285

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For questions, please contact Martica Ventura via email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or by phone at 800-443-9353, ext. 224.


Sessions 1 & 2 | 3 & 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 & 8 | 9 & 10 | 11 & 12 | Poster Session

Program Events Session 1 (Room N138)

  • Status and Trends of Welding Technology and Industry in China
  • A 8:30 AM
  • Ping Shan, Chinese Welding Society and Tianjin University
  • Status and Trends of Welding Technology and Industry in Taiwan
  • B 9:15 AM
  • Jong-Ning Aoh, Taiwan Welding Association and National Chun Cheng University
  • Welding Research in Canada
  • C 10:00 AM
  • Patricio Mendez, N.Zhou, A. Gerlich, and M. Yarmuch, University of Alberta

Program Events Session 2 (Room N138)

  • Effect of Joint Design on Strength of Dissimilar Mg-to-Al Friction-Stir Welds
  • A 1:30 PM
  • Vahid Firouzdor, and Sindo Kou;University of Wisconsin
  • Friction Stir Spot Welding and Its Application for Magnesium
  • B 2:00 PM CANCELLED
  • Blair E. Carlson, Cameron Dasch, Robert Szymanski and Mark T. Hall; General Motors R & D
  • Material Flow and Deformation Mechanisms During Friction Stir Welding
  • C 2:30 PM
  • Adrian Gerlech, University of Alberta
  • Synthesis of Experimental and Simulation FSW Results Using Scaling Techniques
  • D 3:00 PM
  • Karem Tello and Patricio Mendez; Colorado School of Mines
  • Ferrous Alloy Friction Stir Welding and Microstructure Simulation
  • E 3:30 PM
  • David M. Failla II and John Lippold; The Ohio State University
  • Comparison of Joining Thin Sheet TRIP 780 to CRIF Steels Using FSW and GTAW Processes
  • F 4:00 PM
  • Scott Gordon and Stephen Liu; Colorado School of Mines
Sessions 1 & 2 | 3 & 4 | 5 & 6 | 7 & 8 | 9 & 10 | 11 & 12 | Poster Session
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