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Steel is a material with a major strategic importance, vital to many industrial sectors such as transport, construction, oil & gas, and energy production industries. Both the design and production of components and of load bearing structures made of steel are constantly seeking the possibility of increasing the level of strength so as to reduce weight and dimensions in a significant way. The advantages of such an action are however to be seen not only from a pure economic point of view, but, in many sectors, also within a much more important socio-environmental context.

In addition to strength properties, the new steels under development should offer ease of forming, of welding and other fabrication procedures. Severe working conditions often require either good toughness at low temperatures anticipated in service or other improved performances such as low susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement, and resistance to high temperature.

For Material Scientists and Engineers it is a hard task to obtain a satisfactorily good combination of properties that makes the use of high strength steel materials in a selected context possible or even attractive. But the importance of the overall objective largely justifies the big efforts paid by the international Community through the years.

After the previous successful 1st International Conference on “Super-High Strength Steels”, 2-4 November 2005, in Rome, organised by Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia and CSM - Centro Sviluppo Materiali and the Conference on “New Developments on Metallurgy and Applications of High Strength Steels”, 26-28 May 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina, organised by Ternium, Tenaris and Asociación Argentina de Materiales, AIM invites delegates to attend the 2nd International Conference on “Super-High Strength Steels”, in Peschiera del Garda, Italy on October 17-20, 2010.

The Conference will be a suitable meeting place for those involved in research, development and application of advanced steels. The congregation of these groups has proven to be a fruitful seed for the successful development of innovative processes, of new grades for a wide range of carbon and alloyed steels options and of new applications for improved performances high strength steels.

With this conference the organisers intend to achieve the continuation of the path towards a cooperation on a permanent basis between Industry and Academia on the topic of high strength steels. This International Conference will provide a technical forum for the dissemination of recent advances in the field of high strength steels. Academics, research centres, operators in leading market sectors such as Automotive, Mechanics, Oil & Gas and Energy production and transmission, Constructions, are addressed to report on the latest progresses made in the field of formability, weldability, corrosion, fatigue & fracture resistance, creep resistance, just to quote some of the main properties to be developed in association with the required High or Super High Strength levels.

Metallurgists and Technologists will be asked to contribute also on the fabrication cycles set-up and control themes as well as the identification and description of the relevant property – controlling mechanisms.