Preface. TRENDS IN MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES FORTRANSPORTATION INDUSTRIES. KEYNOTE. Adaptation of Automotive Technologies for the Production ofGeneral Aviation Aircraft ( M.Y. Demeri ). An Overview of Hydrogen Storage for Transportation Application( J.C.

F. Wang and E.C.E. Ronnebro ). RAPID PROTOTYPING. Supersolidus Liquid Phase Sintering of Tool Steel for RapidTooling ( J. Liu and H.

A. Kuhn ). Development of Laser Ultrasonics for Defect Detection DuringLaser Powder Deposition ( J. Nemeth, J. Sears, and M.Klien ). Direct Laser Deposition of 316l Stainless Steel ( J. DuttaMajumdar, I.

Manna, and L. Li ). Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Spray-Formed H13Steel Tooling ( Y. Lin, K.M. McHugh, Y.-S. Park, Y.

Zhou, andE.J. Lavernia ). Fabrication of PEM Fuel Cell Bipolar Plates by Selective LaserSintering ( S. Chen, D. Bourell, and K. Wood ). SHEET METAL FORMING.

Effect of Aspect Ratio on High Velocity Formability of AluminumAlloy ( M. Seth and G.S. Daehn ). Electrohydraulic Forming of Automotive Panels ( S.F.Golovashchenko and V.S.

Mamutov ). Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Electromagnetic StampingProcesses ( S.F. Golovashchenko, N.M. Bessonov, and R.W.Davies ).

Local Thermal Manipulation of Aluminium Alloys ( B.Bjrneklett, O.P. S vik, O.R. Myhr, and H. Fjur ). Material Characterisation for Laser-Assisted Sheet MetalHydroforming ( H.

Haferkamp, J. Bunte, and L.Engelbrecht ). Evaluation of Deformation-Induced Surface MorphologiesGenerated in an Aluminum Alloy Sheet ( M.R. Stoudt, J.B. Hubbard,S.

A. Janet, and J. Liu ). Microstructure Based Modelling of Al-Mg-Si Alloys in Developmentof Local Heating Processes for Automotive Structures ( H.G.Fjær, B.I. Bjørneklett, and O.

R. Myhr ). The Potential of Bake Hardening in Hot Rolled Multiphase Steels( H. Palkowski and T. Anke ). The Role of Non-Metallic Inclusions on the High TemperatureFracture Behavior of Low C, Al-Si Steels ( E.Garcfa-Sánchez, A. Salinas-Rodríguez, and L.

A.Leduc-Lezama ). Study on the Cold Formability of Drawn Dual-Phase Steels( K.S. Park, D.L. Lee, and C.S.

Lee ). SHEET METAL PROCESSING. Parametric Analysis for Warm Forming of Aluminum Blanks Using 2DFEA and DOE -- Effects of Temperature Distribution andFriction ( P. Chen and M. Koc ). The Effect of Lubrication on QPF Formability ( P.E.Krajewski ).

Effect of Copper Additions on Superplastic Behavior of 5083AluminumAlloy ( S. Kim and R. Verma ). Development of High Performance Alloy Sheets by Strip Casting( S.S. Park, J.G. Lee, and N.

J. Kim ). Low-Cost Aluminum Tubes for Hydroforming Applications( A.A. Luo and A.K. Sachdev ). Impact Damage Tolerance of Fiber Metal Laminates forTransportation Structural Application ( G.

Wu and J.-M.Yang ). The Effect of Welding Parameters on the Microstructure andMicrohardness of Resistance Spot Welded Galvannealed Steel Sheets( C.R. Claiborn and V.L. Acoff ).

Microstructural Evolution During Bending: Conventional vs.Roller Hemming ( J.E. Carsley ). NOVEL PROCESSES I. Through Process Modelling in Manufacturing of AluminiumStructures for Automotive Applications ( O.R. Myhr, B.

W. Tveiten,H.G. Fjær, and B. Bjørneklett ). Deformation Behavior and Texture Development During theThermomechanical Processing of Fe-15 At.% Ga Alloys Containing NbC( S. Guruswamy, P.

Mungsantisuk, and D. Barker ). Processing Ti-Al-Nb Multi-Layered Composites from Elemetal FoilsUsing Accumulative Roll Bonding ( R. Zhang and V.L.Acoff ). Processing of Gamma Titanium Aluminide Sheets Using Rolling andReactive Synthesis ( G.P.

Chaudhari and V.L. Acoff ). Effects of Minor Alloying on the Microstructures and CreepProperties of Bicrystal RR2086 Superalloy ( Y.H. Kong and Q.Z.Chen ).

NOVEL PROCESSES II. Improvement of Ductility and Toughness of CryomilledNanostructured Al Alloys ( B.Q. Han and E.J. Lavernia ). Spray Rolling Aluminum Strip for Transportation Applications( K.M.

McHugh, Y. Lin, Y. Zhou, E.J. Lavernia, J.-P. Delplanque,and S.B.

Johnson ). Advanced Atomization Process for Metal Spray Deposition ( P.Sokolowski, V. Uhlenwinkel, Y. Liu, V. Linetski, S. Pulbere, and I.Anderson ).

BULK METAL PROCESSING. Semisolid Microstructure Evolution an an ECAP-ProcessedAl-9mass%Si-3mass%Cu (AA380.1) Alloy ( Y. Song, Y. Nishida, andT. Ando ). Thermo-Mechanical Processing of a Cast 7XXX Al AlloyModified with Sc ( R. Bhat, S.

Tamirisa, and O. Senkov ). Microstructure and Tensile Properties of DevelopmentalAl-Zn-Mg-Cu Cast Alloys Modified with Sc And Zr ( S.V. Senkova,R.B. Bhat, and O.N.

Senkov ). Age-Hardening and Plastic Anisotropy in Extruded AlMgSi andAlMgZn Profiles ( H. Bjerkaas, S.K. Fjeldbo, H.J. Roven, J.Hjelen, and T.

Furu ). Further Development in the Precision Forging Technology for HighDuty Automotive Parts ( B.-A. Behrens, S. Reinsch, A. Specker,and K. Telkamp ). Microstructural, Mechanical and Crystallographic TextureEvolutions in Ti-6Al-4V ( L.

Zeng and T.R. Bieler ). Effect of Oxygen Content on Fatigue Properties of Single-MeltPAM Processed Forged Ti-6Al-4V Bell Housings for Lightweight 155mmHowitzer ( M. Guclu, I. Ucok, H. Dong, and C. Hatch ).

POWDER METALLURGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THETRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY. TITANIUM ALLOYS -- P/M DEVELOPMENTS. Influence of Si on the Microstructure of Reactive Sintered TiAl( D.E. Alman ). Fabrication of Titanium Automotive Parts with Laser PowderDeposition ( S. Miller, M. Heath, B.

Woods, A. Costello, D.Dolan, and J. Sears ). Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Ti AlloysUsing a Cryomilling Technique ( F.S. Sun, P. Rojas, A.

Zúñiga, and E.J. Lavernia ). A Novel Method of Injection Molding Titanium Components ( E.Nyberg, K. Simmons, and K.S. Weil ).

SINTERING AND DENSIFICATION -- P/M PROCESSING. Characteristics of W-Ni-Fe-(Cr) in Metal Injection Molding( F.-Y. Hung, T.-S. Lui, and L.-H. Chen ).

Repair of Gas Turbine Engine Components with Laser PowderDeposition ( S. Miller, M. Heath, B. Woods, A. Costello, and J.Sears ). Use of Combustion Synthesis in Preparing Ceramic-Matrixand Metal-Matrix Composite Powders ( K.S.

Weil and J.S.Hardy ). Bi-Material Transportation Components Using Powder InjectionMolding: Densification, Shape Complexity, and PerformanceAttributes ( R.M. German and J.L. Johnson ).

Preparation of Magnetic Fe-Zn Alloys by Explosive Compaction( R.P. Corson, S. Guruswamy, and M.K. McCarter ). NANO-MATERIALS, INTERMETALLICS, AMORPHOUS AND COMPOSITE-- P/M DEVELOPMENTS. Preliminary Evaluation of Equal Channel Angular ExtrusionFollowed by Combustion Synthesis of TiAl ( K.

Morsi and S.Goyal ). Plasma Synthesis of Ultrafine AlTi-TiC Composites ( L. Tongand R.G. Reddy ). Compressive Behavior of a Novel Aluminum Matrix Composite ( J.Ye, B.

Q. Han, Z. Lee, B. Ahn, S.R. Nutt, and J.M.Schoenung ).

Author Index. Subject Index.