Prof. Gu Xu

January 2018

Key Engineering Materials Vol. 759

This collection of the scientific articles is based on the results of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM, August 4-6, 2017, Los Angeles, United States) and сovers a wide range of last research results in area of functional materials - their properties and their possible practical application in the various branches of the modern production. We hope that presented collection will be useful and interesting for many engineers and researchers whose activity are related to materials science, processing and application of materials.

J.M.P.Q. Delgado

December 2017

Diffusion Foundations Vol. 14

The purpose of this volume is to present recent results of developments and applications of novel materials, namely, nontoxic ecological materials, green and nanomaterials, advanced membrane technologies and building materials.

Hariati Taib

November 2017

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 381

This collection of articles was created by results of the International conference on Nano-materials, Function and Composite Materials (ICNFCM2017, July 22-23, 2017, Hong Kong, China) and presents for readers the results of recent achievements in the field of research of properties and synthesis of the various functional materials for the many branches of the modern manufacture. We hope this book will be useful and interesting for many engineers and researchers from many areas of engineering sciences.

Prof. Andreas Öchsner, Prof. Graeme E. Murch, Ali Shokuhfar and Prof. João M.P.Q. Delgado

November 2017

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 380

This is special topic volume “Recent Trends in Mass Transport in Solids and Liquids” focuses on the mass transport in its broadest sense spanning the atomic scale right up to the macro scale. There is also a special focus on real engineering applications of mass transport.

Josef Kasl

November 2017

Solid State Phenomena Vol. 270

This book contains selected contributions presented on the 14th conference “Contribution of Metallography to Production Problem Solutions” held on 6 – 8 June 2017 in the Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic. The conference was focused on application of metallography in industrial practice - for solution of production problems, elucidation of premature failure of machine components and constructions during service, breakdowns or accidents. In addition some results of new research projects which could improve manufacturing technology or quality of machine parts are presented. Individual papers deal with failure causes and fracture mechanism, insufficient material properties and incorrect function of the components. Using metallographic analyses, which include light and electron microscopy, spectroscopic methods, physical methods for detection of defects, material structures are investigated. Results are correlated with material properties and recommendations for production technologies improvement are given.

Gennadiy Pivnyak and Roman Dychkovskyi

November 2017

Advanced Engineering Forum Vol. 25

This collection is dedicated to the 120 th anniversary of the National Mining University (Dnipro, Ukraine) and designed for researchers and practitioners, students, postgraduates and university lecturers, as well as for anyone, who interested in energy conservation issues. In the case of coal fuels, as one of the main energy source, effective technologies for maintaining mining operations under difficult conditions are substantiated. The energy efficiency of coal gasification with the use of mining waste has been estimated, technical and technological means, as well as conditions for the introduction of the gas generator are proposed. In the aspect of the normalization of working conditions of miners, protective effectiveness of respiratory devices is established, taking into account the requirements of the European standard EN 529: 2006. The possibility of significant energy savings is demonstrated by the introduction of electric drives with group power from a conventional DC device with storage capacity.