Tentative Program


Day 1, 3 March 2009

Day 2

7.30-8.00 Registration
08:00 - 08:10 Welcome Note by Dr. Luai Al-Hadhrami,
Director, Center for Engineering Research, KFUPM
08:10 – 08:20 Inauguration of the Workshop by H.E. Dr. Khaled Al-Sultan,
The Rector, KFUPM
08:20 – 08:30 Break

Session-I

08:30 - 09:00 Professor Srdjan Nesic
Director, institute for Corrosion and multiphase flow Technology
Ohio University, USA
Topic: New research developments in corrosion of mild steel in sweet and sour environments.
9:00 - 9:30 Professor Siamack Shirazi
Associate Director, The Erosion/Corrosion Research Center
The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Topic: Erosion-Corrosion under CO2, Sand and Inhibitors
9:30 - 10:00 Ahmed Al-Umair
Saudi Aramco
Title: Saudi Aramco Corrosion and Materials Technology Program
10:00 - 10:15 Tea / Coffee Break

Session-II

10:15 – 10:45 Professor John Nicholls
Cranfield University, U.K.
Topic: Modelling hot corrosion in industrial gas turbines
10:45 - 11:15 Dr. Raman Singh
Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering Monash University, Australia
Topics: Stress Corrosion Cracking of Welds: Advances in Techniques for generating Design Data.
11:15 - 11:45 Prof. Robert Akid
Head of Structural Materials & Integrity Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Title: Novel Sol-gel coatings for anti-corrosion and anti-fouling applications.
11:45 - 13:00 Prayers and Lunch Time

Session-III

13:00 - 13:30 Dr. Manuel Friedel
Head of Research & Development and Technical Service Building Protection, Evonik Industries, Germany
Title: Silane based corrosion inhibition with Protectosil
13:30 - 14:00 Prof. Bishwajit Bhattacharjee
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Title: Assessment of Progress of Rebar Corrosion in RCC Structures
14:00 - 14:30 Dr. Mohammed Maslehuddin
Centre of Engineering Research, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia Title: Reinforcement Corrosion in the Arabian Gulf and its Mitigation
14:30 - 15:15 Panel Discussions

News & Events

Core-C International advisory board, advisory board and executive committee are formed.
The Center calls for pre-proposal in its current research areas.
Now registration for Inaugural Workshop of the Center is open
The Inaugural Workshop of the Center is scheduled on 3-4 March 2009. click here for registration