APDIC acts by its annual meetings and committees and task forces, developing recommendations for the APDIC members. The verification of APDIC recommendations is exclusively by or between members, on a voluntary base. Besides its internal task forces, APDIC has implemented standing committees, to award:

1. the continued intellectual generation of phase diagram knowledge
2. the beneficial use of this knowledge in commercial applications
   
   

The corresponding committees are

1. The Best Paper Award Committee and
2. The Industrial Award Committee.

A third standing committee of APDIC takes care that

3.  promising developments achieved in related disciplines reach APDIC on time.

The task of the Strategy Committee is to assist APDIC internally, so it can direct or redirect its missions over time and advice its members accordingly. Finally the APDIC WRRS Committee takes care for the continuation i

4.  transfer of state of the art information to the public.

This transfer is verified via the bi-annual World Round Robin Seminars.

Using phase diagrams and strategies for intellectual and computational evaluation of data means to follow knowledge driven approaches, with best chances for the lead in technology and for ecological and economic savings. The APDIC Industrial Award acknowledges eminent achievements reached by industries. It raises the awareness of the economic, societal and technical importance of applied knowledge in phase diagrams and highlights the edge position of the receiving party.

Criteria for being awarded

Mandatory Criteria

excellence in operational research, achievements in material dominated technologies or management, relating to Materials Chemistry and Phase Diagrams.

Additional, Supporting Criteria

• societal impact such as generating or expanding business & employment; by developing new materials/properties, new applications, processes, etc.
• environmental impact, such as reduction of emission and pollution, eco-materials, etc. economic impact, such as reduced time to market, energy savings, cost reduction by materials substitution and processing, etc.socio-economic impact, making use of human resources, competence and know how prior to, or instead of, trial and error investments.
• technological impact by achieving step-performance increase in materials properties, application regimes, setting standards, etc.
• global coherence impact, by employing global networking, facility sharing and targeted cooperation across national boundaries.
  
  

Frequency of presentation

Only one candidate will be awarded per year. The Industrial Award Committee of APDIC may decide not to give an award in a particular year. The Award will be given for the first time in October 2003.

Nomination and appointment

APDIC Representatives may nominated candidate for the award to the AIA Committee. Election and appointment of the Award Winners is by the APDIC Industrial Award Committee.

Recipients of the APDIC Industrial Award

 At the first APDIC World Round Robin Seminar the APDIC Industrial Award 2003 was presented to Nippon Steel Corporation, who successfully and with great skills employed Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamics to strengthen its technological position.

APDIC Best Paper Award: Summary of Current Guidelines

Guidelines for the Best Paper Award (BPA)

1. In order to promote the activities of phase diagram related works APDIC awards BPA of year X to a best paper selected from publications of the past year X-1.
2. The referred journals are primarily J. Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, Metall. Mater. Trans. A + B, Z. Metallkunde, Calphad, J. Alloys & Compounds, Intermetallics. Each BPAC member is responsible for scanning one journal but may also nominate other papers. Nominations from other APDIC members are also welcome if they arrive before March 1 of year X at the BPAC chairman.
3. The area is critical assessment of alloy phase diagram data of metals and ceramics, including thermodynamic assessment and theoretical calculation such as first-principles calculation and also experiments. The spirit of the BPA is to commend a scientific achievement reported within the year of selection and, therefore, a single paper will be selected.
4. The prize is $ 500 and certificate. A sample of the wording is given for the 2004 Award: "For the best published manuscript on alloy phase diagram data in the year 2003".
5. The award is announced and conferred at the Calphad meeting of year X and in print in JPED during the year X, also in Calphad. In case of travel restrictions of recipient the award is mailed after the meeting of year X.

Aims

The APDIC World Round Robin Seminar is a seminar organized by APDIC. As it was declared in the first seminar, “APDIC has valuable human resources who are expert in assessing, calculating and determining a phase diagram. One of the new activities we decided to launch is to offer a series of educational seminars on phase diagrams to industry people and students. This is the basic idea of World Round Robin Seminar (WRRS). The lecturers selected among us and requested by us are all well known experts in the fields, and they provide a systematic knowledge of phase diagrams starting from the fundamentals of how to read a phase diagram to up-to-date application in designing new materials such as functional and electric applications.”

Third World Round Robin Seminar

"PHASE DIAGRAMS FOR ENERGY SAVING"

21^st-23^rd March 2010
Université Montpellier 2, MONTPELLIER, France

First World Round Robin Seminar (2003)

From the laws of thermodynamics to advanced materials

Place

• Hokkaido University, Conference Hall, Sapporo, Japan
  
  

Lecturers

• Prof. T. Massalski (Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh ), Dr. P. Turchi (LLNL, Livermore)
• Prof. R. Schmid-Fetzer (Technical Univ. Clausthal), Prof. Z. Qiao (USTB, Beijing)
• Prof. B.-J. Lee (Postech, Pohang), Prof. K. Ishida (Tohoku Univ., Sendai)
• Prof. S. Iwata (Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo), Dr. G. Effenberg (MSIS,Sttutgart)
  
  

Organizers

• Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission
• Japanese Committee for Alloy Phase Diagrams
• Japan Institute of Metals (Co-organizer)
  
  

For further inquries

• Prof. T. Mohri - tmohrieng.hokudai.acjp
• Prof. S. Miura - miuraeng.hokudai.acjp
  
  

Presentation

APDIC was originally established as an organization for the assessment of phase diagrams. As part of the International Programme some 20 volumes on binary systems,totaling over 11,000 pages, and some 55 volumes on ternary systems totaling over 40,000pages have been published under the auspices of APDIC. We believe that, in the comingages, the needs for phase diagrams and related data bases are not declining but are morepronounced. Accordingly, the assessment of the existing phase diagrams and providingreliable phase diagram data remain the core mission of APDIC.On the other hand, we all realize that materials technologies have been constantlychanging towards new directions, and their specifications in the basic materi als science areno more the same as decades ago. The needs for systems and for states of materials take upmulti-combinations of a variety of elements and conditions. Although the numerous binaryand ternary phase diagrams assessed and edited by APDIC members still play a road mapeven in such a development of materials technology communities, APDIC feels thenecessity of exploring a new direction of our activities.Besides phase diagram data, APDIC has valuable human resources who are expert inassessing, calculating and determining a phase diagram. One of the new activities wedecided to launch is to offer a series of educational seminars on phase diagrams to industrypeople and students. This is the basic idea of World Round Robin Seminar (WRRS). Thelecturers selected among us and requested by us are all well known experts in the fields,and they provide a systematic knowledge of phase diagrams starting from the fundamentalsof how to read a phase diagram to up -to-date application in designing new mater ials suchas functional and electric applications.As the name stands for, WRRS is going to be held all over the world every two-three,years. We chose Sapporo, Japan, as the place of the first WRRS. Having many steel makerselectronic industries, metal pr oducers and manufacturers, Japan has strong and potentialtechnological needs in phase diagram related works . Additionally, the Japanese Committeefor Alloy Phase Diagrams has been regarded as one of the leading members of APDIC andthey fully agreed to support our new activity.Those who are working with phase diagrams, those who are exploring new materials andthose who wish to gain a systematic knowledge of a phase diagram,....you are verywelcome to our WRRS offered by world well known experts.