Advanced High Strength Sheet Steels

1. Evolution of strength of automotive steels to meet challenges of auto industry.- 2. Main features of heat treatment from intercritical region.- 3. Effect of structure on mechanical properties of dual-phase steels.- 4. The effect of chemical composition on formation of ferrite-martensite structures and mechanical properties of dual-phase steels.- 5. Trip steels.- 6. Complex phase steels.- 7. Martensitic sheet steels.- 8. Candidates to AHSS of 3rd generation: Steels with carbide free bainite.- 9. Candidates to the 3rd generation: medium mn steels.- 10. Candidates for 3rd generation steels: Q&P processed steels.- 11. Austenitic steels with twip effect.

Dr. Nina Fonstein is currently a scientific advisor of automotive product development group, Global R&D, ArcelorMittal in East Chicago, USA, being for more than 10 years the manager of that group, leading investigations, development and commercialization of various grades of AHSS.  Before joining ArcelorMittal in 1999 she had been working in the I.P.Bardin Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy in Moscow, Russia, as a senior research associate and later as a head of the laboratory of formable steels working on dual-phase steels from 1979 and on TRIP-steels from 1988. She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and hold Ph.D. in solid state physics from I.P.Bardin Central Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy (1968) and Dr. Science degree in physical metallurgy from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1986) as well as the title of Professor from the Supreme Attestation Commission of Russian Federation (1990). Author of the book "Dual-phase low alloyed steels" (in Russian) and more than 100 publications in English. Supervised 16 PhD students in Russia and keep supervising PhD students - employees of ArcelorMittal.