Conferences
12–14 October 2016, Shanghai, China
4th International Small Sample Test Techniques Conference
Small scale testing is now receiving world-wide attention for the considerable cost saving benefits that it can offer whilst providing useful mechanical property information for highly localized regions, such as weldments and heat affected zones. As such, miniaturized testing is now being adopted for a wide range of applications, where subtle to significant microstructural changes are found across components. Given the success of such approaches, efforts have been made in correlating uniaxial test data with results generated from small-scale test techniques, which, in turn, have heralded the development of a European Code of Practise for small punch testing.
The 4th International Conference on Small Sample Test Techniques is due to take place in Shanghai, China, from 12–14 October, 2016, and will bring together leading researchers and scientists from academia and industry to discuss recent developments in this growing field of research. This inaugural Special Issue will collate a series of papers from the ever expanding small scale testing community to showcase the diversity and innovative nature of the research that is currently developing across the world on a broad scope of materials and applications.
The main topics of the conference are:
- Small Punch Creep Testing
- Small Punch Testing for Tensile and Fracture Behaviour
- Non-destructive Sampling of Test Material from in Service Components
- Determination of Actual Material Properties from in Service Components
- Indentation and Hardness Testing
- Other Miniature Test Techniques
- Numerical Approach
