First Announcement and Call for Papers

Seventh International Symposium of the Japan Welding Society (7WS) will be held as a key program in the year-long celebration of the 75th anniversary of JWS’s founding in the first year of the 21st century.

Welding and joining technology has been making a progress through fusion and harmonization with every field of science and technology to be applied and adapted to manufacturing process for various kinds of products.

The symposium aims to promote direct exchange of the latest scientific and technological information related to welding and joining, and discussion of the strategy impacting the future of materials processing R&D between those who participate from all over the world in the following scope and topics:

Your abstract should include:

1. Title.
2. Authors.

Last (family) name, First (given) name, Affiliation.

Please mark the Corresponding Author with mailing

address, telephone, fax and e-mail address.

3. Abstract.

Abstract must be sent to:

Program Committee of 7WS

Japan Welding Society

1-11 Kanda Sakuma-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0025, Japan

The full Proceedings will be published prior to the Symposium and will be handed at the registration desk.

The Conference Committee is planning to arrange optional technical visits to industries and institutions during the Symposium. The detailed information will be provided in the Second Announcement.

Further information can be obtained by the followings:

The Symposium will be held at International Conference Center Kobe in Kobe, Japan. Kobe is located near Osaka and Kyoto, and it is conveniently accessible to Kansai International Airport by land and by sea. It is about 3 hours and 20 minutes by Shinkansen line (Bullet Train) from Tokyo.

Conference Chairman: Masao Ushio, Osaka University

Program Committee:

Chairman: Takayoshi Ohji, Osaka University

Co-chairman: Kenji Ikeuchi, Osaka University

Executive Committee:

Chairman: Kazutoshi Nishimoto, Osaka University

Co-chairman: Hiroyuki Matsumura, Kawasaki Heavy Industries,Ltd.

Finance Committee:

Chairman: Hideyuki Yamamoto, Daihen Corp.

Co-chairman: Genta Takano, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,Ltd.

Conference Secretary: Yoshinori Hirata, Osaka University

National Advisory Committee:

Yuzuru Fujita, Science University of Tokyo

Toshiharu Nomoto, University of Tokyo

Hirokazu Nomura, Nippon Kokan Koji Corp.

Shuzo Susei, Kawasaki Heavy Industries,Ltd.

Masao Toyoda, Osaka University

International Advisory Committee:

H. Cerjak, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Sheng-Weng Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

S. A. David, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA

U. Dilthey, ISF-Welding Institute, Aachen University, Germany

R. Dolby, The Welding Institute, UK

T. Eagar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Y. S. Kim, Korea Maritime University, Korea

Wu Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

J.L. Lippold, Ohio State University, USA

S. Marya, Ecole Centrale Nantes, France

T. H. North, University of Toronto, Canada

G. den Ouden, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

B. Pekkari, ESAB, Sweden

M. Scasso, Italia Institute of Welding, Italy

C. Smallbone, Welding Technology Institute of Australia, Australia

B. Sornil, Thai Welding Society,Thailand

Zhen Sun, Singapore Welding Society, Singapore

H.Tung, Hanoi University of Technology

K. Yushchenko, Paton Welding Institute, Ukraine