The Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center in cooperation with the Office of Sponsored Programs of Syracuse University has been conducting the Annual Sagamore Army Materials Research Conferences since 1954. The specific purpose of these conferences has been to bring together scientists and engineers from academic institutions, industry and government to explore in depth a subject of importance to the Department of Defense, the Army, and the scientific community. This 30th Sagamore Conference, entitled Innovations in Materials Processing, has attempted to focus on the inter­ disciplinary nature of materials processing, looking at recent advancements in the development of unit processes from a range of standpoints from the understanding and control of the under­ lying mechanisms through their application as part of a manufactur­ ing sequence. In between, the classic link between processing and materials properties is firmly established. A broad range of materials are treated in this manner: metals, ceramics, plastics, and composites. The interdisciplinary nature of materials processing exists through its involvement with the basic sciences, with, process and product design, with process control, and ultimately with manufacturing engineering. Materials processing is interdisciplinary in another sense, through its application within all materials disciplines. The industrial community (and the Army as its customer) is becoming increasingly concerned with producibility/reliability/ affordability issues in advanced product development. These concerns will be adequately addressed only by employing the full range of disciplines encompassed within the field of materials processing.

Section I.- Affordability Through Technology: Bridging the Gap.- Manufacturing and Productivity.- Section II Process Modeling and Control I.- Closed-Loop Control of Sheet Metal Forming Processes.- Modeling of Organic Materials Processing.- Weld Quality Monitor and Control System.- Hot Rolling Simulation of Electromagnetically Cast and Direct-Chill Cast 5182 Aluminum Alloy by Hot Torsion Testing.- Computer Modeling of Energy Intensive Processes: Some Ford Motor Company Applications.- Section III Process Modeling and Control II.- Process Modeling of P/M Extrusion.- Development of a Computer-Aided Analysis Method for Sheet Material Forming Processes.- Recent Developments on the Application of the Finite Element Method to Metal Forming Processes.- Section IV Processing from the Liquid State.- Recent Material and Process Developments in RIM and RRIM.- Precision Injection Molding of Thermoplastics.- Oxide Single Crystal Growth.- Recent Advances in Solidification Processing.- Processing of Steel Ingots for the Production of High Quality Forgings.- Section V Processing of Particulates.- Metal Alkoxy-Derived Powders.- "SHS" Self Sintering of Materials in the Titanium-Baron-Carbon System.- Vibrational Fusing of Plastic Particles.- Synthesis of Ceramic Powders and Surface Films from Laser Heated Gases.- Dynamic Compaction of Metal and Ceramic Powders.- Section VI Advances in Machining Technology.- High Metal Removal Rate (HMRR) Machining.- High Speed Machining.- Advances in Precision Grinding.- Section VII Surface Treatments.- Ion Implantation of Metal and Non-Metal Surfaces.- Surface Modification by Plasma Polymerization.- Advances in Carburizing - Vacuum Carburizing.- Electroplating of Refractory Metals.