摘要:Our world is changing rapidly. Climate change, the exhaustion of resources, are strong drivers for modifying
profoundly the way we travel, the way we heat and cool our buildings, the way we consume products and services.
Among the industrial materials, aluminium has a key role to play in these transitions. Although the energy required to
reduce alumina into aluminium is very large, it is then almost infinitely recyclable and makes it possible to build lighter
and stronger structures, among many applications. The current research on aluminium alloys is reflecting these
evolutions, where new alloys, new processing methods, are invented to address the growing needs of vehicle weight
reduction, recyclability, and durability. The 17th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA), for the first
time in a virtual format, has gathered more than 350 scientists from all continents to exchange on the most recent
advances on all aspects of processing, microstructure and properties of Aluminium alloys. These proceedings comprise
the published version of a subset of the 220 presentations given at this conference, in full open access.