Montanuniversität Leoben · 20–22 September 2026
Sunday, 20 September
Furnace Hall of the Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy
Arrival & Welcome
17:30Get-Together, find the furnace hall in the IZW building (entrance Max-Tendler-Straße 9)
18:30Lab Tour
Monday, 21 September
Haus der Digitalisierung, Roseggerstraße 11
Session 1 – Setting the Scene: Perspectives on Aluminium Research
Chair: Sebastian Samberger
08:30 – 08:40Welcome
08:40 – 09:00Stefan Pogatscher Montanuniversität Leoben
Sustainable Aluminium Alloy Research at the Department of Metallurgy
09:00 – 09:20Irmgard Weißensteiner Montanuniversität Leoben
Texture, still important in recycled aluminium?
09:20 – 09:40Thomas Kremmer Montanuniversität Leoben
Beyond “Simple Imaging”: TEM in-situ experimentation and DPC segmentation
09:40 – 10:00Petra Spörk-Erdely TU Graz
New approaches to the fabrication of aluminium–carbon nanomaterials
10:00 – 10:10Discussion
10:10 – 10:40Coffee break
Session 2 – Closing the Loop: Recycling, Casting and Durability
Chair: Philip Aster
10:40 – 11:00Derya Dispinar SINTEF, Norway
Critical aspects of aluminium liquid-metal cleanliness: quest for defect-free castings
11:00 – 11:20Emre Cinkilic NTNU, Norway
Replacing legacy secondary HPDC alloys with upcycled UniAlloy from end-of-life Twitch scrap: computational design and pilot-scale validation
11:20 – 11:40Takumi Kosaba Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Corrosion engineering for aluminium alloys via micro-electrode techniques
11:40 – 12:00Moritz Theissing FELMI-ZFE, TU Graz
Advanced electron microscopy for recrystallization characterization in wrought aluminium alloys
12:00 – 12:10Discussion
12:10 – 13:00Lunch
Applied Hands-on Sessions
13:00 – 15:00Christian Berger Struers
Hands-on workshop: water-reduced preparation of Al alloys
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30Monika Schuler Zwick-Roell
Destructive testing of nonferrous materials
Evening
18:15City Tour
19:30Dinner, San Marco, Franz-Josef Straße 2
Tuesday, 22 September
Haus der Digitalisierung, Roseggerstraße 11 · afternoon: excursion to 4a engineering, Traboch
Session 3 – Down to the Detail: Interfaces, Defects and Strain
Chair: Thomas Kremmer
08:30 – 08:50Christoph Gammer Erich Schmid Institute, ÖAW
Quantifying local strain fields in complex metals and alloys using 4D-STEM
08:50 – 09:10Flemming Ehlers Nanjing Tech University, China
Short-ranged equilibrium at a non-stoichiometric, compositionally sharp precipitate/matrix interface
09:10 – 09:30Evelin Fisslthaler FELMI-ZFE, TU Graz
Analytical techniques for in-situ STEM, optimizing speed and resolution
09:30 – 09:50Sebastian Samberger Montanuniversität Leoben
EBSD indexing of low-symmetry and pseudosymmetric intermetallic phases in aluminium alloys
09:50 – 10:00Discussion
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
Session 4 – Putting Alloys to the Test: Deformation, Properties and Damage
Chair: Sebastian Samberger & Irmgard Weißensteiner
10:30 – 10:50Philip Aster Montanuniversität Leoben
Potential of 5xxx–10 wt.-% Mg rolled sheets
10:50 – 11:10Robert Kahlenberg Montanuniversität Leoben
Familiar Alloy, Unfamiliar Detail: A Large-Scale Survey of Intermetallics in AA7050
11:10 – 11:30Hiroyuki Dannoshita Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
A combined XRD and crystal-plasticity FEM approach for dislocation-density analysis in aluminium alloys
11:30 – 11:50Florian Zrim FELMI-ZFE, TU Graz
Correlative in-situ SEM-DIC and EBSD analysis of strain localization during three-point bending of AA6xxx alloys
11:50 – 12:20Application: Martin Schwab 4a engineering
A closer look on testing ductility and rate sensitivity in Al alloys
12:20 – 12:30Discussion and Final wrap-up
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
Excursion (for those interested in a live demo of mechanical testing)
13:30Departure, public transport to Traboch
14:30Tour at 4a engineering, Traboch
16:30Final get-together at 4a, followed by a joint return