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CAI WINS 2016 HTS/
BODYCOTE BEST PAPER
IN HEAT TREATING
AWARD
The winner of the 2016
HTS/Bodycote Best Paper in
Heat Treating Award is entitled,
“Microstructure Development in
AISI 4140 Steels During Temper-
ing,” by
Xiaoqing Cai,
a Ph.D.
student in materials science
and engineering at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Cai
received assistance from her
advisor, Richard D. Sisson, FASM.
She is currently working on a research project focused on
furnace and induction tempering of steel. Cai has published
three papers and given four presentations, and she plans to
graduate in May 2017.
The award will be presented at WPI’s Center for Heat
Treating Excellence in June. The ASM Heat Treating Society
established the Best Paper award in 1997 to recognize a
paper that represents advancement in heat treating technol-
ogy, promotes heat treating in a substantial way, or shows a
clear advancement in managing the business of heat treat-
ing. The award includes a plaque and $2500 prize endowed
by Bodycote Thermal Process-North America.
SISSON RECEIVES WPI AWARD
Richard D. Sisson, FASM,
received Worcester Polytechnic
Institute’s (WPI) 2016 Board of
Trustees’ Award for Outstanding
Research and Creative Scholar-
ship. The award recognizes con-
tinuing excellence in research
and scholarship by faculty mem-
bers over a period of at least
five years. Sisson is the George
F. Fuller Professor of Mechan-
ical Engineering, director of
WPI’s Manufacturing and Materials Engineering Programs,
and technical director of the WPI Center for Heat Treating
Excellence. He is currently principal investigator for a multi-
million-dollar, multi-institution project aimed at developing
new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys to
help the military build more effective and durable vehicles
and systems.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE
23
rd
IFHTSE CONGRESS
Contributed by Scott MacKenzie, FASM
The 23rd IFHTSE Congress, held April 18-22 in Savan-
nah, Ga., was very well attended with 20 countries and each
continent represented. The conference attracted approxi-
mately 171 attendees and 20 exhibitors, and was sponsored
by Houghton International and Linde Gas. The first keynote
presenter was Prof. H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, who was awarded
the IFHTSEMedal and gave an interesting talk on “Very Short
and Very Long Heat Treatments in the Processing of Steel.”
It was an excellent presentation, sprinkled with humor, and
showed a real connection with the audience. Bhadeshia’s
talk was thought provoking and demonstrated some fun-
damental concepts in a unique manner. The second key-
note was presented by Tobias Steiner, past winner of the
Linde Tom Bell Young Author Award in Munich (2014). His
presentation on “Alloying Element Nitride Development in
Ferritic Fe-based Materials upon Nitriding” was intriguing
and demonstrated fully why he was chosen for the Tom Bell
Award. The final keynote was given by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.
Rolf Zenker, Zenker Consult Mittweida, on “Surface Treat-
ment by Electron Beam in Combination with Other Heat
Treatment Technologies.”
Presentations on quenching, modeling, nitriding, and
other advanced thermal processes were held throughout
the conference. One interesting paper on extending the life
of furnace and fixture alloys by surface engineering was
discussed by Anbo Wang of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(student of Prof. Rick Sisson). This paper examined the prac-
tical benefits of prolonging the life of expensive, high nickel
alloy fixtures.
The winner of the Linde Tom Bell Young Author Award
for this Congress was Matteo Villa, Technical University of
Denmark, for his talk “The Sub-Zero Celsius Treatment of
Stainless Steels: Experiments and Perspective.”
A special symposium on residual stress prediction,
control, and measurement was held in conjunction with
the IFHTSE Congress. This symposium brought together
many aerospace experts, including the USAF Materials Lab-
oratory, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Lockheed Martin, and
Boeing, as well as experts from IWT Bremen, including Prof.
Hans-Werner Zoch, and others from the automotive indus-
try. It was a very exciting symposium with an excellent idea
exchange between very different industries. A great deal of
networking was accomplished as well.
Winner of the HTS/Body-
cote 2016 Best Paper
in Heat Treating Award,
Xiaoqing Cai.