Preface

We would like to introduce you to the Proceedings of the 5th PING Junior conference - Modern Trends in Materials Engineering, which took place from 15 to 17 September 2020 in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The conference is regularly organized by the Regional Institute of Technology (RTI, www.rti.zcu.cz) at the University of West Bohemia. This year’s event was focused mainly on master and doctoral students in order to support their research activities and enable them to present the obtained results. Furthermore, selected research projects were presented within the contributions. This year was very demanding for organizing mass events, and our conference was also affected by the coronavirus epidemic. For this reason, it was organized in a combination of fulltime and online participation. A total of 18 contributions were presented at the conferences, which reflected the research projects solved within RTI. Several presentations were devoted to high-strength steels, such as the optimization of their heat treatment, use for hot stamping technology or their corrosion properties. Other contributions were focused on optimizing the heat treatment of stainless steel. Presentations, which were concentrated on heat or cryogenic treatment of maraging steel in the conventional state and after 3D printing, were also presented. Attention was also paid to special technologies such as semi-solid processing. Of these, six were selected for publication in the proceedings of IOP Conference Series. In conclusion, we would like to invite you to the sixth year of the PING conference, which will take place from 7 to 10 September 2021. List of Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee, Program Committee, Contacts, Images are vilaable in this pdf.