| Tuesday 20-November | |||
| Room 1 | |||
| 13:10-17:10: Special Session 1 organized by AWS and JWS | |||
| "Seismic Issues in Welding - Post-Kobe/Northridge Design and Construction" chaired by M. Toyoda and R.E. Shaw | |||
| Invited Lecture: Unresolved Issues on Earthquake Resistance of Steel Building Structures | M.Nakashima | Kyoto University | Japan |
| Invited Lecture: USA Practice for Steel Building Design, Welding and Inspection in Seismic Regions | R.E.Shaw | Steel Structures Technology Center, Inc. | USA |
| Invited Lecture: Required Fracture Toughness of Steel to Prevent Brittle Fracture during Earthquake in Steel Bridge Piers | C.Miki, E.Sasaki | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| Invited Lecture: Selection, Properties,and Use of Welding Consumables For Seismic Applicaion in the United States | M.Johnson | Edison Welding Institute | USA |
| Invited Lecture: Is Fracture Mechanics Approach Applicable to Steel Structures under Seismic Loading? | M.Toyoda | Osaka University | Japan |
| Discussions | |||
| Room 2 | |||
| 13:10-15:05: Production with Laser and Electron beam I | |||
| Invited Lecture: Laser Arc Hybrid Welding | U.Dilthey, H.Keller | Aachen University of Technology | Germany |
| Research on Laser-MAG Hybrid Welding of Carbon Steel | M.Kutsuna, L.Chen | Nagoya University | Japan |
| Hybrid Welding of Dissimilar Steels | M.Dahmen, L.Chen | Fraunhofer-Insitut fur Lasertechnik | Germany |
| Application of Hybrid Welding Combined TIG Arc and YAG Laser to Thin Steel Plates Welding | T.Kim, Y.Suga | Keio University | Japan |
| New Corrosion resistant materials and novel progresses in their welding for environmental technologies | H.Herold, G.Neubert, M.Zinke, M.Karpenko | Otto-von-Guericke-Universitiat Magdeburg | Germany |
| Application of YAG laser welding for gas turbine blade | Y.Uemura, M.Mega, K.Takahashi, S.Tsubota, M.Kanikawa | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,Ltd. | Japan |
| Development of YAG laser welding robot system | T.Matsumoto, T.Murata, M.Nishio, O.Satoh, H.Uehara, S.Shikoda | Kawasaki Heavy Industries,Ltd. | Japan |
| 15:20-16:50: Production with Laser and Electron beam II | |||
| Underwater Laser Repairs by 4 kW CW YAG Laser | Y.Yamashita | Hitachi | Japan |
| Underwater Maintenance and Repair Technologies for Reactor Components by Laser Material Processing | Y.Sano, M.Tamura, I.Chida, N.Suezono | Toshiba Corporation | Japan |
| Experiences on Laser Beam Welding of Aluminium Materials at BMW | H.Hornig, J.Duran | BMW | Germany |
| EBW system for installing natural gas pipelines(Report 1) | H.Morisaki, Y.Hara, H.Masuda | Osaka Gas Co., Ltd | Japan |
| Electron beam welding system for installing natural gas pipelines(Report 2) | M.Nishio, S.Koga, M.Inuzuka, H.Nagatani, S.Aomi, A.Nishida | Kawasaki Heavy Industries,Ltd. | Japan |
| Application of Electron Beam Welding for Cylindrical Pressure Vessel | M.Nayama, M.Toyoda, T.Toyohara, H.Otsuji, M.Kurosawa, S.Aoki, K.Ogawa | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. | Japan |
| Room 3 | |||
| 13:10-15:05: Arc Physics I | |||
| Invited Lecture: Physical Aspects of Laser-Assisted Arc Welding | G.den Ouden, B.Hu | Delft University | Netherlands |
| Arc Behavior in GTAW Using Tungsten Cathode Activated with Nanoscale Oxides | Z.Yang, Y.Ogawa, T.Morita, J.Matsuda, H.Zhang, B.Ding | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | Japan |
| Nanocomposite tungsten thermionic cathode doped with high content oxide | H.Zhang, Z.Yang, B.Ding | Xi'an Jiaotong University | China |
| Effect of cathode shape on electron temperature in TIG arc | R.Narita, M.Tanaka, H.Terasaki, M.Ushio | Osaka University | Japan |
| Characteristics of Hollow Cathode Arc as a Welding Heat Source | H.Nishikawa, T.Maruyama, K.Yoshida, T.Ohji, Y.Suita, K.Masubuchi | Osaka University | Japan |
| V-I Characteristic of Plasma in the Glow-to-arc Transition | S.Watanabe, K.Takahashi, T.Onzawa | Tokyo Institute of Techology | Japan |
| Analysis of Liquid Metal Flow under Micro-Gravity | Y.Ogawa | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | Japan |
| 15:15-17:10: Arc Physics II | |||
| Invited Lecture: Flux application in GTA welding to improve process performance stainless steels and titanium alloys | S.Marya, S.Sire | Eole Centrale Nantes | France |
| New perspectives in GTA welding of aluminium throgth flux application | S.Sire, S.Marya | Ecole Centrale Nantes | France |
| Study on A-TIG Welding of Mild Steels | D.Fan, R.Zhang, Y.Gu, M.Ushio | Gansu University of Technology | China |
| Investigations on variable weld penetrations in GTA welding of austenitic and martensitic stainless steels.Search for elemental effect. | S.Puybouffat, A.Chabenat, C.Boudot | Framatome Technical Center | France |
| Liquid Flow inside Molten Pool during TIG welding and Formation Mechanism of bubble and Porosity | S.Katayama, M.Mizutani, A.Matsunawa | Osaka University | Japan |
| Effects of surface tension and gravity on the convection in molten pool during electron beam welding | H.Fujii, N.Sogabe, M.Kamai, K.Nogi | Osaka University | Japan |
| Surface tension of molten metals under plasma conditions | H.Fujii, K.Ueda, M.Tanaka, T.Matsumoto, K.Nogi | Osaka University | Japan |
| Room 4 | |||
| 13:10-15:10: Welding of Stainless Steels and Heat Resistant Steels I | |||
| Prevention of weld decay of austenitic stainless steel by twin-induced grain boundary engineering | M.Shimada, H.Kokawa, Z.J.Wang, Y.S Sato | Tohoku University | Japan |
| Prediction of Thermal Embrittlement in Cast Duplex Stainless Steels by Computer Simulation | K.Nishimoto, K.Saida | Osaka University | Japan |
| Impact Toughness in Heat Affected Zone of High Nitrogen Containing Ni-free Austenitic Stainless Steel | I.Woo, T.Horinouchi, Y.Kikuchi | Osaka University | Japan |
| High Toughness GMA Welding for 12Cr Martensitic Stainless Steel Line Pipes | H.Ishii, K.Yasuda, Y.Miyata, M.Kimira | Kawasaki Steel Corporation | Japan |
| Weldable 13% Chromium Martensitic Stainless Line Pipe Manufactured by High Power Laser Welding | S.Kusaka, M.Suzuki, K.Iwazaki, K.Uwai, J.Ohwaki | NKK Corporation | Japan |
| Fractography by 3-Dimensional Reconstruction of Hydrogen Embrittlement for Duplex Stainless Steel Weld Metal | T.Kuroda, K.Ikeuchi, K.Nakade, Y.Kitagawa | Osaka University | Japan |
| Failure Analaysis of Duplex Stainless Steel Weldment by Means of Three-dimesional Reconstruction Technique | T.Kuroda, K.Ikeuchi, Y.Kitagawa | Osaka University | Japan |
| Study on improvement of weld defect detectability in austenitic SUS weld joint by ultrasonic pulse wave | Y.Horii, T.Hurukawa, H.Yoneyama, S.Nishikawa, N.Uesugi | Japan power engineerin and inspection corporation | Japan |
| 15:20-17:15: Welding of Stainless Steels and Heat Resistant Steels II | |||
| Invited Lecture: The Basic Effects of Welding on Advanced 9-12% Cr Creep Resistant Steels | H.Cerjak, E.Letofsky | Graz University of Technology | Austria |
| Effects of B and N on Creep Rupture Strength of Weld Memetals by GTAW for 9-12%Cr Ferritic Heat Resisting Steels | K.Yamashita, H.Hatano, T.Sugino, A.Gotoh, N.Hara | KOBE STEEL Ltd | Japan |
| Experimental Analysis of Deterioration of Creep Strength at Welded Joint of 11% Cr Heat Resisting Steel | K.Shinozaki, L.D.Jun, H.Kuroki, K.Ohishi | Hiroshima University | Japan |
| Stress Analysis around Precipitates in HAZ of 11% Cr Heat Resisting Steel during Creep Process | L.D.Jun, K.Shinozaki, H.Kuroki, K.Ohishi | Hiroshima University | Japan |
| Common Metallurgical Causes of Reheat Cracking and Low Ductility Creep Fracture in HAZ of Cr-Mo Steel | K.Tamaki, H.Kawakami, J.Suzuki | Mie University | Japan |
| Effect of SR Treatment on Temper embrittlement in HAZ of Cr-Mo Steel | H.Kawakami, K.Tamaki, J.Suzuki | Mie University | Japan |
| Improvement of Long-term Creep Strength of 2.25Cr-1Mo Steel Welded Joint by A New Post Weld Heat treatment | K.Kimura, T.Watanabe, H.Hongo, M.Yamazaki, J.Kinugasa, H.Irie | National Institute for Materials Science | Japan |