Experts Identify ESSENTIAL READINGS IN MAGNESIUM

JOM, Feb 2014

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Experts Identify ESSENTIAL READINGS IN MAGNESIUM

Kelly Zappas For more than a decade, the TMS Magnesium Technology Symposium has offered a recognized forum for presenting the latest advances in a members have sifted through the published proceedings of these symposia-more than 1,000 papers in all-to present the best of the best - Magnesium Technology has evolved into one of the largest symposia held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition each year. Magnesium research and technology has seen a huge surge in the last decade, and this is evident in the expansion of the Magnesium Technology symposium and proceedings, which have grown from approximately 50 presentations/ papers in 2000, to more than 100 presentations/papers in 2012, said Suveen N. Mathaudhu, lead editor for the volume. During that time, the focus of the research presented at the symposium has evolved and trends have shifted. All of this is captured in the Essential Readings collection. In 1999, the driver for increased use of magnesium was cost reduction, said Eric Nyberg, who edited the Magnesium Technology proceedings from 2008 to 2010. Today the concerns have less to do with cost and more to do with performance. Can you provide a lower density part, at or near the cost of other materials, while maintaining or improving performance? Magnesium technology, in general, has also accepted the need to become more environmentally friendly. Developments in lowemission primary production are now a recognizable concern and many advances have been the pollutants released. Similarly, methods to eliminate the use of gas in processes involving molten magnesium have been realized. Taken as a whole, the papers presented in Essential Readings in Magnesium Technology play an important role by offering a bigpicture view of the magnesium industryboth of the technologys past and its future. Future trends have to have a basic understanding of past successes and failures, said Neale R. Neelameggham, who edited the Magnesium Technology proceedings from 2006 to 2012. This volume of Essential Readings is providing that opportunity. A Nine-Part Examination of Magnesium Technology The volume is divided into nine sectionseach one focusing on a different area of magnesium technology and each one introduced by a different editor. All of the editors selected for this volume have served as a Magnesium Technology symposium organizer and as editor of past Magnesium Technology proceedings. Essential Readings presents papers in the following nine subject areas: Magnesium Technology History and Overview Electrolytic and Thermal Primary Production Life-Cycle Analysis Alloy and Microstructural Design Wrought Processing Modeling and Simulation Joining Corrosion, Surface Treatment, and Coating For more on the section editors and their comments on the development sidebar article, Meet the Editors. Though each editor focused on different aspects of magnesium technology, they all seemed to agree that the process of editing the book was a learning experience in itself. Working on this volume from a somewhat different, wider perspective, said Wim Sillekens, who edited the Magnesium Technology proceedings from 2010 to 2012. For Mathaudhu, the process of editing the book was as educational for him as the editors hope it will be for readers. Being the lead editor, but also the youngest of the team of co-editors, it was inevitable that I would learn assembling the volume, whereas many of the co-editors have been studying magnesium alloys for decades, said Mathaudhu. This new knowledge certainly gave me a renewed appreciation of the history and longlasting implications of the Magnesium Technology symposium. I believe that whether a reader is new to the be something new and interesting to appreciate from the volume. What Makes a Paper Essential Reading? The editorial team selected nearly 100 papers, carefully chosen from the more than 1,000 manuscripts published in Magnesium Technology between 2000 and 2012, for the volume. Because fewer than 10% of all papers were chosen, three selection of the papers: General Relevance: All papers selected as Best Paper Award winners for their years in the student and contributed categories were included, as these manuscripts represented the Many review papers that summarized the state-of-the-art in magnesium technology were also included. The number of times a paper was cited was also used as a measure to indicate its essential value. Highly cited papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. Industrial Relevance: Also included are Best Paper Award winners in application, a category that was added in 2007 to the student and contributed awards. These manuscripts were selected for inclusion because of their representation of leapforward advances and novel demonstrations of industrial applications. Looking to the Future While the papers provide an in-depth look at past trends in the magnesium industry, they also offer a preview of what lies ahead. The volumes editors believe that m (...truncated)


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Experts Identify ESSENTIAL READINGS IN MAGNESIUM, JOM, 2014, pp. 189-191, Volume 66, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-013-0857-z