Bodycote technical teams prepare for PowderMet 2009

‘PowderMet’, the annual international technical conference on powder metallurgy and particulate materials, will be taking place in Las Vegas from 28th June – 1st July 2009.

Organised by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), which is a federation of six trade associations, the event will feature more than 200 technical presentations in 46 technical sessions and six special interest programs and will attract hundreds of delegates from around the world. Authors from 31 countries will report on the latest developments in metal powders, powder metallurgy (PM) processes and products. International companies will display equipment and products at the concurrent trade exhibition.

This year, Bodycote’s Global Director of Research & Development, Dr Stephen Mashl, will co-chair the event. Dr Virendra Warke (Research Engineer at Bodycote Andover), has also served on the organising committee for the event and, working with Mats Gärdin of Avure, has put together a two session/six paper special interest program on isostatic processing entitled, ‘Isostatic Pressing of Particulate Materials – Advances and Applications’.

Bodycote authors will be presenting two papers at the conference:

‘Development of a Computational Tool to Predict the Distribution and Concentration of Argon Gas within a HIP Facility, in the Event of Catastrophic Decompression of a HIP Vessel’ – Peter Mtui, Aurobindo Das, Bodycote Materials Testing & Keith Johnston, Stephen J. Mashl, Virendra S. Warke, Bodycote HIP

‘Effect of HIP on the Microstructure and Impact Strength of MIM 17-4 PH Stainless Steel’ – Jane L. LaGoy, Stephen J. Mashl, Bodycote HIP & Matthew K. Bulger, NetShape Technologies – MIM

The conference is also where the annual Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards take place, at which Bodycote won the grand prize in 2007 for the cryomagnet end covers used on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

For further information, please visit the PowderMet 2009 website: https://www.mpif.org/Meetings/2009/09_gateway.htm