This volume comprises select proceedings of the AHSS 2017 conference. AHSS is an instrumental event in creating a platform for exchanging recent thoughts and results among a selective group of researchers working in the area of steel science and engineering. Twenty four papers selected papers have been included in this volume. This book will serve as a reference book to many practitioners and researchers working in the areas of steel strength, characterization, and applications.

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Dr Tapas Kumar Roy is a Principal Scientist in the Research and Development (R&D) Division of Tata Steel Limited in Jamshedpur, India. He holds M. Tech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Dr Roy has been associated with Tata Steel for over 20 years and during this period he has worked in various functions like Scientific Services, Long Product Technology, Flat Product Technology before being moved to R&D from 2016. His areas of interest include steelmaking, secondary refining, continuous casting, inclusion engineering, ferro-alloys, defectology, mould powder, process design and improvement. He has authored over 40 scientific research papers in National and International journals and conferences.

**** Dr Basudev Bhattacharya is working as Principal Scientist in the Research and Development (R&D) Division of Tata Steel Limited in Jamshedpur, India. He holds M. Tech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. From 1997 to 2007, Dr Bhattacharya has worked in the Cold Rolling Mill and Flat Product Technology Group in Tata Steel. From 2007 onwards he has been in the R&D Division at Tata Steel. His areas of interest include physical metallurgy and materials science, phase transformation, designing of steel chemistry, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, etc. He has been granted 4 patents, and he has authored over 30 scientific research papers.

Dr Chiradeep Ghosh is a Principal Researcher in the Research and Development (R&D) Division of Tata Steel Limited in Jamshedpur, India, where he has been working since 2003. He holds a M. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India and a PhD from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His areas of interest include Thermomechanical controlled processes, phase transformation and related phenomenon, characterization of materials and electron microscopy. Dr. Ghosh has been granted 6 patents, and has authored over 35 scientific research papers and served as an editor for 2 conference proceedings. In addition he has also authored a book titled The Dynamic Transformation of Deformed Austenite (Scholars Press). He serves as a reviewer for multiple high impact journals and is an editorial board member of Current Smart Materials.

Dr Satish Kumar Ajmani is Chief Researcher in the Steelmaking & Casting Research Group in Research and Development (R&D) of Tata Steel Limited in Jamshedpur, India. He holds M. Tech and PhD degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Kharagpur respectively. His areas of interest include steelmaking, physical and numerical modeling, continuous casting, inclusion engineering, product - process design & optimization and mould powder development. Dr Ajmani has worked at Tata Steel for over 30 years, and has been the Chief researcher for the last 2 years. He has authored over 100 scientific research papers in National and International journals and conferences.