The 8th International Conference on Advanced Steels (ICAS 2025)
November 18-21, 2025, Shanghai China
| Time | Hotel Hall (Hyatt on the Bund) |
| 13:30 | Registration |
| 19:00~20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Duration | Main Venue (Hyatt on the Bund, Grand Ballroom) | ||
| 8:45~9:00 | 15 mins | Opening | ||
| Plenary | ||||
| 9:00~9:40 | 40 mins | Challenges and Solutions to Long-Life Span Bearing Steel：Inclusion Tolerance Microstructure Design and Control Wenquan Cao | ||
| 9:40~10:20 | 40 mins | Importance of Controlled Heating in Designing Microstructure and Properties of Advanced High Strength Steels Tadashi Furuhara | ||
| 10:20~10:50 | 30 mins | Coffee break and group photo | ||
| 10:50~11:30 | 40 mins | Multiple-Heterostructuring of Steels and High Entropy Alloys Hyoung Seop Kim | ||
| 11:30~13:30 | 120 mins | Lunch | ||
陆家嘴厅(LUJIAZUI) Session 1: Fundamentals of Physical Metallurgy | 虹桥+豫园厅 (HONGQIAO+YUYUAN) Session 2: Property Evaluation and Microstructure Evolution | 新天地厅(XINTIANDI) Session 3: Alloying | ||
| 13:30~13:50 | 20 mins | Keynote Texture Control in Low-Carbon Steel Sheet Theory and Practice Kestens Leo | Keynote Creep Damage Formation and Healing in Self-Healing Fe-X Alloys: a Dynamic Interplay Sybrand van der Zwaag | Keynote Improvement of Strength and Ductility, Corrosion Resistance Simultaneously by Addition of Nitrogen Guocai Chai |
| 13:50~14:10 | 20 mins | Invited Influences of Cu Alloying on Precipitation, Austenitic Reversion and Mechanical Properties of NiAl-Strengthened Medium-Mn Steels Haiwen Luo | Keynote Hydrogen Embrittlement of Austenitic Stainless Steels: Role of Alloying Elements Sung-Joon Kim | Invited Effect of Tramp Elements and Nitrogen in Industrially Produced Deep Drawing and Engineering Green Steels Alexander Gramlich |
| 14:10~14:30 | 20 mins | Invited Synergistic Effects of Niobium with other Microalloying Elements in the Development of Advanced Steels Jose Maria Ibabe | Invited Martensitic Transformation in Metastable Austenitic Stainless Steel during Electrochemical Process Heung Nam Han | Invited TiC Precipitation Behavior and Its Effect on Abrasion Resistance of High Titanium Wear Resistant Steel Xinjun Sun |
| 14:30~14:50 | 20 mins | Invited Preferred Interfacial Structures in Steels and Their Migration Wenzheng Zhang | Invited Data-driven Prediction of a Fatigue Strength of Nitrided Steels Goro Miyamoto | Invited Key Physical Metallurgical Issues of Lean Stainless Steels Alloyed with High Nitrogen Laizhu Jiang |
| 14:50~15:20 | 30 mins | Coffee break | ||
| 15:20~15:40 | 20 mins | Invited Advancements in Computational Steel Design Matthias Militzer | Invited Topological Features of Ferrite Grain Boundaries and their Connections with Carbon Segregation Yongjie Zhang | Invited Development and Application of UF400-HS Stainless Steel for High-Pressure Fuel Tank in New Energy Vehicles Jun Shu |
| 15:40~16:00 | 20 mins | Invited Thermally Activated Deformation in Single-Crystal Micropillars of Ferritic Stainless Steels Naoki Takata | Invited κ-Carbide Induced Dual-Heterogeneous Structure Pursuing Ultrahigh Strength and Ductility in Lightweight Steel Yizhuang Li | Invited Superplasticity of Medium Mn Steel with Various Al-Si Contents Minghui Cai |
| 16:00~16:20 | 20 mins | Invited New Insights into Hot Deformation and Restoration Mechanisms of Austenite and Ferrite in Duplex Microstructures Nima Haghdadi | Invited Making 2.5~3.0GPa Ultra-strong steel via Phase-Transformation Control of Heavily Deformed Metastable Austenite Aidang Shan | Speaker Phase Transformation Tailoring in Medium Manganese Steels: Achieving High Strength/Ductility Through Microstructure Engineering Chengwu Zheng |
| 16:20~16:40 | 20 mins | Speaker Influence of Crystallographic Variant Improving the Mechanical Properties of Carbide-Free Bainitic Steel Feiyu Zhao | Invited Property Evaluation and Microstructure Evolution of Medium-Mn Steel Cunyu Wang | Speaker Fully Restoring the Damaged Ductility of H-Charged Cr–N Alloyed Medium-Mn Steel via Pulsed Current Bin Hu |
| 16:40~17:00 | 20 mins | Speaker Investigating the Precipitates Behavior in Ti-Mo Microalloyed Steels by Tempering Baoqi Dong | Speakers Strong yet Tough steels via Tailoring Multicomponent Precipitate and Austenite Youyou Zhang | Speaker Effect of Mo Addition on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Chemical Heterogeneous Q&P Steels Chao Zhang |
| 17:00~17:20 | 20 mins | Speaker Effect of Bath Temperature on the Microstructure of (Si, Ti) Micro-Alloyed Haotian Chen | Speaker Mechanism of Mo Microalloying and Microstructure-Property Control of Nickel-Saving Ultra-Low Temperature Steel Weina Zhang | |
| 10 min | Poster Time | |||
| 30 min | Session Discussion | |||
| 19:00~20:30 | Dinner | |||
| Time | Duration |
陆家嘴厅(LUJIAZUI) Session 4: New Processing Metallurgy |
虹桥+豫园厅 (HONGQIAO+YUYUAN) Session 8: New Iron and Applications |
新天地厅(XINTIANDI) Session 6: Functional Steel |
| 8:30~8:50 | 20 mins |
Invited Microstructural and Property Characteristics of Low-Carbon-Emission Thin Strip Casting and Rolling Galvanized Sheet Hualong Li |
Invited Preparation of Pure Iron by Low-Temperature Electrolysis of Iron Ore Haitao Yang |
Keynote Development and Applications of Biofunctionalized Cu-bearing Stainless Steels Ke Yang |
| 8:50~9:10 | 20 mins |
Invited Precipitation Behaviour in Steels Produced by Direct Strip Casting Lu Jiang |
Invited Development of Pure Hydrogen Metallurgy Near-Zero Carbon High Purity Iron Production Technology Hemin Zhou |
Invited Achieving Unexpected Strength and Ductility Synergies in Heterogeneous Lamellar Steels Huibin Wu |
| 9:10~9:30 | 20 mins |
Invited Application of Twin-Roll Strip Casting in Advanced Metal Materials Wanlin Wang |
Invited 4N High-Purity Pyrometallurgical Iron Large-Scale Production Technology Jiaxin Bai |
Invited Exploring Microstructure Design Strategies to Balance the Toughness and Thermal Conductivity of Hot Work Tool Steels Jialong Tian |
| 9:30~9:50 | 20 mins |
Keynote Advanced Coating-Free Press Hardening Steels Developed with Sustainable EAF+CSP/QSP Process Weiping Sun |
Invited Electrochemical Extraction of Iron from Lunar Soil in Molten CaCl2 Xinli Zou |
Invited Recent Development of High Damping Fe Based Alloys and the Potential Applications Fuxing Yin |
| 9:50~10:20 | 30 mins | Coffee break | ||
| 10:20~10:40 | 20 mins |
Invited Simulation on Forming Mechanism of Edge Seam Defects and Developing of Control Technology Hui Zhang |
Keynote Preparation of 5N Ultra-Purity Iron by Vertical Floating-Zone Refining in High Vacuum Run Xu |
Invited Tailoring Precision of Current Transformers through Domain Wall Movement in Nanocrystalline Ribbons Song Ma |
| 10:40~11:00 | 20 mins |
Invited Cr12MoV Cold-work Die Steel Production Via Curved Continuous Casting Yu Liu |
Speaker The Effect of Electrolyte Temperature on Improving the Purity and Morphology of Electrolytic Pure Iron Di Zhang |
Invited Effect of Magnetic Field Annealing on Magnetic and Mechanical Properties of Fe80Si9B11 Amorphous Alloy Hui Xu |
| 11:00~11:20 | 20 mins |
Invited Additive Manufacturing Ultra-Strong Steel with Sustainable TRIP Effects Shilong Liu |
Speaker The Application of Pyrometallurgical Iron in the Cathode of Aluminum Electrolysis Cell Gangsheng Xie |
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| 10 min | Poster Time | |||
| 30 min | Session Discussion | |||
| 12:20~13:30 | 70 min | Lunch | ||
| Time | Duration |
陆家嘴厅(LUJIAZUI) Session 7: Steel Performance and Applications |
虹桥+豫园厅 (HONGQIAO+YUYUAN) Session 5: AI+Steel |
新天地厅(XINTIANDI) Session 9: Green Steel Technology |
| 13:30~13:50 | 20 mins |
Keynote Overcoming Hydrogen Embrittlement in High-Strength Alloys via Topological Passivation Binhan Sun |
Keynote Use of AI/ML for Property Prediction in Advanced High Strength Steel Nick Birbilis |
Keynote Novel Flash Reduction Hydrogen of Iron Ore Fines in Australia Geoffrey Brooks |
| 13:50~14:10 | 20 mins |
Keynote High-Resolution Views of Hydrogen Distributions and Hydrogen Embrittlement in Steels Yisheng Chen |
Invited Microstructural Quantification-Driven Alloy Design Chenchong Wang |
Invited Sustainable Iron and its Alloy Production via Hydrogen-Based Direct Reduction Yan Ma |
| 14:10~14:30 | 20 mins |
Invited Analysis of the Delayed Cracking Mechanism of a Hot-Dip Galvanized DP1180GI Steel Coil Jinxu Li |
Invited Data Driven Design of Hydrogen Embrittlement Resistant High-Strength Steel Based on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Data Yu Yan |
Invited Research Progress on Low-Carbon Metallurgical Technology of China Baowu Jian Li |
| 14:30~14:50 | 20 mins |
Invited Industrial Produced Medium Manganese Forging Steels Entering the European Market Alexander Gramlich |
Invited Coupling AI and ICME for Steel R&D Xiaogang Lu |
Invited Research and Application of Key Low-Carbon Control Technologies for the Entire Steel Industry Chain Fangqin Shangguan |
| 14:50~15:20 | 30 mins | Coffee break | ||
| 15:20~15:40 | 20 mins |
Invited Environmental Sensitivity and Failure Mechanisms of Iron-Based Multi-Component Metallic Materials Hong Luo |
Invited AI and 3D Printing in the Circular Economy for Metals Peter Hodgson |
Keynote Review and Outlook of China’s Steel Scrap Industry Fangjie Wang |
| 15:40~16:00 | 20 mins |
Invited Revisiting Defects and Pitting Initiation in Stainless Steels: From a Statistical Perspective Yangting Sun |
Invited Machine Learning-Driven Predictive Modeling for Steels Manufacturing: From Phase Transformation Temperatures to Wear of Backup Rolls Yuwen Cui |
Invited Decarbonization of Automotive Steels and the Practice of Baosteel Yong Zhong |
| 16:00~16:20 | 20 mins |
Invited Research on the Matching of Strength and Toughness of Ultra-High Strength Bridge Cable Steel Jianfeng Zhang |
Invited An Intelligent Metallographic Analysis System Based on a Domain-Specific Foundation Model Zheng Qi |
Invited Maximized Utilization of Sinter Waste Heat and Zero-Emission Technology for Circular Coolers Yuan Yao |
| 16:20~16:40 | 20 mins |
Invited Effect of Initial Microstructure on Mechanical Properties of Galvanized 3rd Generation AHSS Feng Yang |
Invited Data-Driven Intelligent Design of Bainitic Rail Steels: From Defect rating to Microstructure Digitalization Zhenjia Xie |
Invited New Injection Fuels for Blast Furnace Ironmaking Towards CO2 Emission Runsheng Xu |
| 16:40~17:00 | 20 mins |
Invited The Effect of Rust Layer Damage on Weathering Steels and a Novel Stabilizing Technique Weichen Xu |
Invited LLM4DM in the Steel Industry Jinyan Li |
Invited Technologies Selection and Decarbonization Pathways Analysis of the Green Steel Production Qi Zhang |
| 17:00~17:20 | 20 mins |
Speaker The Effect of Grain Boundary on H Embrittlement Endurance of HSLA Pipeline Steels Seyed Mohammad Vakili |
Invited AI-Assisted Alloy Design for High Strength Fastener Wire Rods Hongshan Zhao |
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| 10 mins | Poster Time | |||
| 30 mins | Session Discussion | |||
| 18:30~21:30 | Huangpu River Tour | |||
| 8:20~11:10 | Plant Tour: Baosteel |