Key Engineering Materials

Description: This book covers selected reviewed research papers submitted to AUXDEFENSE 2018 conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal on 3-4 September 2018. These papers discuss the latest research and development in the defense sector, addressing mainly three topics: new materials for enhancing mechanical, chemical and biological protection along with improved comfort of the soldiers, different testing methods to characterize their performance and lastly, modelling and simulation techniques to help product design and prediction of properties. This book will be of great interest for the researchers and scientists working in this area as well as for the industries involved in developing products for the defense sector.

Description: We are pleased to introduce the readers the Proceeding containing a selection of papers from contributed talks presented at the 6th International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences (the 6th ICMNS) that was held in Bandung, Indonesia, on November 2-3, 2016. This collection represents research results in the area of the modern material sciences: functional and structural materials, materials for electronics, biotechnologies, food chemistry and pharmacology, technologies and materials in environmental engineering.

Description: The book covers a broad range of topics related to damage, failure, wear structural materials and parts and some technological aspects that provide the necessary strength properties of these materials. The collection contains the results of research and analysis of the fracture behavior of the materials that are subject to fatigue, stress corrosion cracking and extreme plastic deformation including analysis of the failures. Several papers focus on the microstructure of materials and prediction of their lifespan based on the knowledge of damage processes. The articles present various aspects of experimental, theoretical and computational investigations with an emphasis on the direct applications in engineering. The book was comprised of the papers presented at the conference "New Methods of Damage and Failure Analysis of Structural Parts" (September 10-14, 2018, Technical University of Ostrava-VSB, Czech).

Description: The “22^nd Symposium on Composites”, held in the science city of Kaiserslautern, Germany, from June 26-28, 2019, covered a wide range of composite-related topics including polymer, metal and ceramic matrix composites, hybrid structures and materials, coatings, manufacturing technologies, testing and simulation, smart materials, biocomposites and recycling. This conference was organized by the “Gemeinschaftsausschuss Verbundwerkstoffe (GAV)” within the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V. (DGM)“ in cooperation with the „Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW)“ and the University of Kaiserslautern. Researchers from different scientific institutions and technology companies presented and discussed the latest developments and trends in all kinds of composites.

Description: The 20th Conference on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Buildings (28 - 29 November 2018, Brno, Czech Republic) addresses the issue of building rehabilitation, a field which can be topically classified into the following areas of interest:1. Flaws and failures affecting historical and contemporary buildings; 2. Advanced materials used in buildings reconstruction and 3. Fire safety of buildings. The scientific papers include the areas of remediation of wood structures, building surface treatments (plasters), repair mortars, stone restoration, rehabilitation of masonry, rehabilitation of concrete structures, physicochemical properties of building materials, statics and dynamics of buildings and rehabilitation of timber-frame structures.

Description: This collection of papers from the 10th China Functional Material Technology and Industry Forum (10th CFMTIF, 19 - 22 October 2018, Tianjin, China) presents the results of scientific researches and engineering solutions in the area of functional materials which are generally characterized as those materials which possess particular native properties and functions of their own, including electrical, magnetic, optical, thermotic, acoustic, mechanic, chemical, biological functions.

Description: This volume contains papers, which were presented on the 4th Asian School-Conference on Physics and Technology of Nanostructured Materials (ASCO-NANOMAT, September 23-28, 2018, Vladivostok, Russia). The represented research results reflect the recent tendencies in the area of development nanostructured materials, semiconductors, functional materials, coatings, and surfaces.

Description: This volume contains papers presented at the 2019 International Symposium on Advanced Materials and Application (ISAMA 2019), which took place in Seoul, South Korea, on January 18-20, 2019. The proceedings introduce to the readers with the newest researches results and findings in the field of materials properties and testing, materials application, materials behavior simulation and analysis, materials manufacturing, and processing.

Description: The book consists of the selected, peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference on Nanomechanics and Nanocomposites (ICNN5) and the 2nd FIT-ME Symposium, 22-25 August 2018, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. The scope and aim of the book are to exhibit the recent exciting accomplishments and future trends in the field of nanocomposites and functional materials for various fields of application. This collection can be interesting for specialists in the field of nanomechanics, physics, and chemistry of nanocomposites and functional materials with a scientific program covering theoretical aspects, experimental methods and examples of practical industrial applications.

Description: This volume of the journal contains papers collected by results of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Materials Research (9th ICAMR 2019, 24-27 January 2019, Singapore) and presents the latest innovations and scientific discoveries covering all aspects of advanced materials research. We hope this collection will be interesting for many engineers and researches.