Book Description

This volume contains the proceedings of the David RobertsonHonorary Symposium: Celebrating the Megascale, held at the TMS 2014Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. Dr. David G.C. Robertson,Professor Emeritus of Metallurgical Engineering at the MissouriUniversity of Science and Technology, has devoted his career to theeducation of highly skilled metallurgical professionals and to thescience of all types and sizes of metallurgical processes, particularly those involving molten metals. The volume contains more than 70 papers covering the importanttopics and issues in metallurgy today including papers as follows:keynote papers covering a tribute to Robertson, workforce skillsneeded in the profession going forward, copper smelting, ladlemetallurgy, process metallurgy and resource efficiency, new flashiron making technology, ferro-alloy electric furnace smelting andon the role of bubbles in metallurgical processing operations.Topics covered in detail in this volume include ferro-alloys,non-ferrous metallurgy, iron and steel, modeling, education, andfundamentals.