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Advancing Materials and Manufacturing: CAMS2024 Brings Innovation To Life
The 8th conference of the Combined Australian Materials Societies, incorporating Materials
Australia and the Australian Cer
The 8th conference of the Combined Austra Materials Societies, incorporating
Australia’s leading materials scientists, engineers, technology trailblazers, and thought leaders recently gathered for the Combined Australian Materials Societies (CAMS) 2024 Conference.
Our technical program will cover a range of t identified by researchers and industry as issues of topical interest.
Symposia Themes
> Additive manufacturing
Symposia Themes
> Advances in materials characterisation
The event is Australia’s largest interdisciplinary technical meeting of the year, and featured a wide range of speakers and delegates from around the world. It was the largest ever CAMS Conference, with over 350 delegates in attendance.
> Additive manufacturing
> Metals, alloys, casting & thermomechanica processing
> Advances in materials characterisation
> Biomaterials & nanomaterials for medicine
> Ceramics, glass and refractories
> Metals, alloys, casting & thermomechanical processing
> Biomaterials & nanomaterials for
> Corrosion & wear
> Materials for energy generation, conversio
> Ceramics, glass and refractories
> Corrosion & wear
> Computational materials science -
Held at The University of South Australia from 4 to 6 December, the eighth biennial conference brought CAMS, Materials Australia, and the Australian Ceramic Society’s delegates under the same roof to exchange ideas, technology and advances in research.
> Nanostructured/nanoscale materials an
> Materials for energy generation,
> Computational materials science -
> Nanostructured/nanoscale materials an
> Progress in cements, geopolymer building materials
> Surfaces, thin films & coatings
> Polymer technology
> Progress in cements, geopolymer building materials
> Composite technology
> Surfaces, thin films & coatings
> Polymer technology
> Waste materials and environmental remediation/recycling
> Composite technology
> Semiconductors and electronic materials
> Materials for nuclear and extreme environments
> Waste materials and environmental remediation/recycling
The conference covered a broad range of themes, including additive, advanced and future manufacturing; materials characterisation; surface coatings; biomaterials and nanomaterials for medicine; ceramics, glass and refractories; energy generation, conversion and storage materials; corrosion and wear resistant materials; nanostructured and nanoscale materials; and polymers and composites.
> Advances in Science and Technology of Ceramics (AOCF)
> Semiconductors and electronic materials
> Materials for nuclear and extreme environments
> Advances in Science and Technology of Ceramics (AOCF)
The three-day conference featured three plenary sessions, including a presentation by Professor Phil Withers on Correlative time resolved electron and x-ray imaging of materials behaviour. Philip Withers read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, before doing a PhD in metal matrix composites and then becoming a lecturer there. He then took up a Chair at the University of Manchester. He became the inaugural
Director of the $100 million bp International Centre for Advanced Materials in 2012. In 2016 he helped to set up the Royce Institute for Advanced Materials becoming its first Chief Scientist.
Cathy Inglis AM presented on Firing up innovation: ceramics’ journey towards net zero. Cathy is an experienced materials engineer and technical expert with nearly 30 years in the building industry and building product manufacturing with a focus on research, product development and product compliance. She is currently the Group CEO of Think Brick Australia, the Concrete Masonry Association of Australia and the Australian Roofing Tile Association who represent the manufacturers across this industry sector. Cathy is on the National Board of the Housing Industry Association and was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the building and construction industry in 2020. Professor Julie Cairney spoke on The influence of hydrogen on the deformation of steels. Julie is a Professor in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Sydney and also serves as the University’s Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Enterprise). She specialises in using advanced microscopy to study the three-dimensional structure of materials at the atomic scale. Her projects cover hydrogen embrittlement in steels, corrosion, nuclear materials and biominerals.
The keynote speakers at CAMS2024 included: Professor Xiaozhou Liao (University of Sydney), Prof. Benny Freeman (The University of Texas at Austin), Dr Amy Clarke (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Assistant Professor Jennifer Young (Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore), Professor Michael Moody (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), Professor Satoshi Wada (University of Yamanashi, Japan), Professor Debra Bernhardt (The University of Queensland), Professor Yuji Sano (University of Osaka and Institute for Molecular Science, Japan), Dr ArashTahmasebi (University of Newcastle), Distinguished Professor Zhengyi Jiang (University of Wollongong), Professor Raman Singh (Monash University), Professor Tuan Ngo (University of Melbourne), Professor Julie Glaum (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), A/Prof. Ailar Hajimohammadi (UNSW
Sydney), Professor Javad Mostaghimi (University of Toronto, Canada) and Dr Ali Hagdigheh (University of Sydney).
In addition, a range of local and international speakers were invited to share their industry knowledge about a variety of topics including advanced duplex stainless steels; laser additive manufacturing; and pore-scale modelling in heterogeneous porous materials.
Together, the CAMS2024 organising committee selected speakers who delivered a series of interactive keynotes, where they drew on their experiences to inspire, motivate and share knowledge with the broader sector.
The six-parallel symposia event was rescheduled to ensure a face-to-face meeting was possible. This allowed delegates to attend networking events and awards ceremonies, where they were encouraged to connect with likeminded peers.
There were also conference posters, where PhD students and industry academics put their research on full display, answered questions and discussed the future scope of research.
CAMS2024 would like to acknowledge the organising committee for this event: Professor Nikki Stanford (coChair), Associate Professor Pramod Koshy (co-Chair), Professor Gwenaelle Proust, Dr Andrew Ang, Professor Colin Hall, Associate Professor Danyang Wang, Dr Daniel Gregg, Dr Sajjad Mofarah, Amber Moore and Tanya Smith.
CAMS2024 was supported by Business Events Adelaide, the Government of South Australia, the University of South Australia, Raymax Applications, SEAM ARC Training Centre, CSIRO, Taylor & Francis, American Elements, and a range of exhibitors.