ELKEME team members, Dr. G. Pantazopoulos, Dr. S. Papaefthymiou, Dr. A. Toulfatzis, Ms. Bouzouni, Mr. E. Gavalas, Ms. S. Papadopoulou, Dr. A. Vazdirvanidis, Ms. M. Katsivarda participated to the 7^th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Metallic Materials, which was held in Athens, December 11-13, 2019.  They contributed to the presentation of various papers in oral and poster sessions of the Conference. Specific areas of interest were including Physical Metallurgy-Heat Treatment, Modeling-Simulation, Mechanical Behavior, Failure Analysis, Corrosion and Wear, etc. More specifically, the contributed papers are shown below:

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Effect of Ultra-Fast Heat Treatment on the Formation of Multiphase Microstructure in CrMo Steel [A. Banis, M. Bouzouni, S. Papaefthymiou].
2. Mesh Sensitivity Analysis on Implicit and Explicit Method for Rolling Simulation [E. Gavalas, I. Pressas, S. Papaefthymiou].
3. Modeling of Crucial Process Parameters of Special Steels Continuous Casting [Μ. Bouzouni, P. Sismanis, S. Papaefthymiou].
4. Rotary Friction Welding of Dissimilar Metal Pipes (AISI304/AA6060-T6). [Α. Tsoumpas, Α. Vazdirvanidis, Α. Markopoulos].
5. Examination of embrittlement due to hydrogen diffusion in dissimilar Al alloy welds (FSW). [E. P. Kyriakopoulou, C. N. Farantos, G. D. Beldekos, A. G. Markoulis, C. A. Xanthis, A. Vazdirvanidis, I. V. Chatzidouros, D. I. Pantelis].
6. Effect of Ultra – Fast Heating on the Microstructure Evolution of a  Dual Phase Steel. [A. Banis, E. Hernandez Duran, V. Bliznuk, I. Sabirov, R. H. Petrov, S. Papaefthymiou].
7. Optimization of Cooling Conditions in DC casting on Cu – Fe – P Alloy  using Finite Element Modeling [S. Papaefthymiou, F. Aslanis, E. Gavalas, N. Marinakis].
8. Prediction of Plate Crown during Aluminum Hot Flat Rolling by Finite Element Modeling [E. Gavalas, S. Papaefthymiou].
9. Simulation of Particle Dissolution during Homogenization in Cu–Fe–P Alloy [Μ. Bouzouni, Ε. Gavalas, S. Papaefthymiou].
10. Investigation of Aging Behavior of a Cu-Ni-Si Rolled Alloy [P. Stavroulakis, A. Toulfatzis, A. Vazdirvanidis, G. Pantazopoulos, S. Papaefthymiou].
11. Homogenization Study of As Cast 6063 Aluminum Alloy Billets and Examination of the Effect of Cooling Rate on the Resulting Microstructure [M. Katsivarda, A. Vazdirvanidis, G. Pantazopoulos, N. Kolioubas, S. Papadopoulou, A. Rikos, E. Spiropoulou, S. Papaefthymiou].
12. Texture and Anisotropy Evolution of AA 5182 through Hot, Cold Rolling and Final Annealing [Α. Kontopoulou, Ε. Gavalas, Σ. Papadopoulou, Α. Vazdirvanidis, S. Papaefthymiou].
13. Microstructural Analysis of HSLA Steel Resistant in Hydrogen Induced Cracking [Κ. Gounari, Μ. Bouzouni, Ι. Gkourousis, Α. Tazedakis, S. Papaefthymiou].

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. Machinability of Heat Treated Lead – Free Brass Alloys [A. Toulfatzis, G. Pantazopoulos, C. David, D. Sagris, A. Paipetis].

Ms. M. Katsivarda received the 3rd prize in the field of Materials Science and Engineering in the frame of National Competition for Master Thesis Award organized by Hellenic Metallurgical Society.