5th UK-China Steel Research Forum

Dear Colleagues,

The UK–China Steel Research Forum is a well-established biennial academic conference for steel researchers across the UK and China, with support from universities, major steel manufacturers, steel research institutions, and research funding bodies from both countries. It has become a unique platform for scientists, academia, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss the recent advances in steel, materials science, and engineering research and foster research collaborations between the UK and China.

The 5th UK–China Steel Research Forum, continuing the tradition of its four successful predecessors, Leicester (2010), Wuhan (2012), Oxford (2014), and Chongqing (2016), will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK on 4–7 July 2018, in conjunction with the 16th Conference of Chinese Materials Association in the UK on Materials Science and Engineering, with over 100 attendees from the UK and China and representatives from Sweden and Austria.

This Special Issue, released by Metals, is solely dedicated to the 5th UK–China Steel Research Forum. It reflects the state-of-the-art of the steel research in both the UK and China in the fields of advanced steel metallurgy, new materials, materials characterisation, multi-scale materials modelling, advanced manufacturing, modelling of metallurgical processes, application of artificial intelligence in steel industry, metallurgical equipment and automation, and environmental protection and sustainability.

Prof. Hanshan Dong
Prof. Hongbiao Dong
Dr. Zushu Li
Guest Editors

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