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Indiana Convention Center • Wabash Ballroom 2–3
Monday, 2 May • 8–8:45 a.m.		  
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David Matlock
David K. Matlock

The 2011 Howe Memorial Lecture will be held on Monday, 2 May 2011, at the Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Ind. The Howe Memorial Lecture was established in 1923 to honor Henry Marion Howe. Dr. Howe helped turn steelmaking from an art into a science with his gift of observation and deduction. He reviewed the experiments and breakthroughs of others and added to them with investigations of his own to establish metallography. The lecturer is selected in recognition of outstanding individual contributions to the science and practice of iron and steel metallurgy or metallography.

The 2011 lecturer is David K. Matlock. Prof. Matlock received his B.S. degree in engineering science from the University of Texas at Austin (1968), and his M.S. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. He is the Armco Foundation Fogarty Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden, Colo. He joined the CSM faculty in 1972 and is involved in teaching and research, primarily related to the mechanical properties of materials. He is one of the co-founders and currently serves as director of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center, an industry-university cooperative research center established at CSM in 1984. The center currently has 27 corporate sponsors and is recognized as one of the most successful industry-university research centers in the world. Matlock is a Fellow of the American Society for Metals (ASM), a Fellow of the American Welding Society (AWS), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In his 39-year career at CSM, he has received numerous awards for teaching and research, including in 1987 being named the first CSM Outstanding Educator by CSM’s president and in 2006 as the CSM board of trustees’ Outstanding Faculty Award recipient. He has also received awards from several professional societies, including the Metallurgical Society of AIME (named Honorary Member in 2008), the Iron & Steel Society, ASM, AWS, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Nuclear Society, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and AIST. He has authored or co-authored more than 370 technical publications, mostly related to steels.

Dr. Matlock’s lecture is entitled, "Dual-Phase Steels: A Look Back With an Eye to Advanced High-Strength Sheet Steel Innovations."

 
 
Abstract: In the past 30+ years, significant advancements have been made in the development of higher-strength sheet steels with improved combinations of strength and ductility that have enabled important product improvements leading to safer, lighter weight and more fuel-efficient automobiles, among numerous applications. Properties of the primarily low-carbon, low-alloy steels are derived through careful control of time-temperature processing histories designed to produce multi-phase ferritic-based microstructures that include martensite and other constituents, including retained austenite. The basis for these developments stems from the early work on dual-phase steels, which was a subject of much interest. In response to industry needs, dual-phase steels have evolved as a unique class of advanced high-strength sheet steels (AHSS) in which the thermal and mechanical processing histories have been specifically designed to produce constituent combinations for the purpose of simultaneously controlling strength and deformation behavior, i.e., stress-strain curve shapes. Improvements continue as enhanced dual-phase steels have recently been produced with finer microstructures, higher strengths and better overall formability. Today, dual-phase steels are the primary AHSS products used in vehicle manufacture, and several companies have indicated that the steels will remain important design materials well into the future. In this presentation, fundamental results from the early work on dual-phase steels will be reviewed and assessed in light of recent steel developments. Specific contributions from industry/university cooperative research leading to product improvements will be highlighted. The historical perspective provided in the evolution of dual-phase steels represents a case-study that provides an important framework and lessons to be incorporated in next-generation AHSS products.  
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