Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) represent a critical material class at the frontier of structural performance and lightweighting strategies across automotive, aerospace, and civil infrastructure sectors. This session brings together leading researchers and engineers to address the latest advances in AHSS alloy design, processing, mechanical characterisation, forming, joining, and in-service failure behaviour, with a strong emphasis on bridging microstructural understanding with industrial application. Contributions providing new understanding, advanced characterisation techniques, and modelling approaches related to the proposed topics are particularly welcome.

Scope & Topics of Interest:

• Alloy-Process-Microstructure–Property relationships in AHSS
• Forming, stamping and roll forming of AHSS: springback, edge cracking and FLD
• Non-conventional technological approaches for heat treatment of AHSS-thermal cycling, ultrafast heating and other )
• Microstructure evolution during manufacturing processes (phase transformations, recrystallization, recovery, etc.)
• Severe plastic deformation and ultra-fine grained steels
• Hydrogen embrittlement and delayed fracture susceptibility
• Fatigue performance and damage mechanisms under variable amplitude loading
• Joining technologies: resistance spot welding, laser welding, adhesive bonding and mechanical fastening
• Crashworthiness, energy absorption and impact response
• Corrosion behaviour and protective coatings (galvanised, hot-dip, PVD)
• Residual stress, work hardening and press hardening (hot stamping / PHS)
• Computational modelling, FEM, and data-driven approaches for AHSS
• Sustainability, recyclability and lifecycle considerations