Key Engineering Materials

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This special topics volume includes the peer-reviewed articles covering research and development in the area of the materials processing technologies in the mechanical engineering. This collection will be interesting and useful for many engineers, academics and also for students.

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This collection of papers and keynote lectures presented at the 9th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (Stessa2018, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 14-17, 2018) is a comprehensive overview of the recent state-of-the-art developments in the field of seismic resistant steel structures. The book is a valuable source for all stakeholders involving scientists, professionals, companies, and authorities dealing with the reduction of the seismic risk in earthquake prone countries.

Description: The special edition of the journal “Key Engineering Materials” contains papers that were presented to the 58th International Conference of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry (MSAC 2017, 20th October, 2017, Riga, Latvia). The main objective of this collection is to present the latest scientific findings obtained in the fields of materials science and chemistry.

Description: This book is based on the results of the 6th International Conference Non-Traditional Cement and Concrete 2017 (Brno, Czech Republic from June 19 to June 22, 2017) and includes recent results of the scientific research in the area of non traditional cements and concretes, especially alkali activated materials, geopolymers, clinker-free binders, durability, high performance concrete, microstructure study etc. We hope that this collection will be useful for many specialists whose activities are related to building materials.

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The 14th International Conference "Special Concrete and Composites" (October 10-11, 2017, Skalský Dvůr, Czech Republic) was focused on the problems of preparing and use of the special concretes and composites in the practice of the contemporary construction. We hope that published results will be useful for many specialists from the area of building materials and concrete structures. Using of special concretes and composites is often closely connected with severe loading conditions of final elements. Design and development of the mentioned materials must take account of basic properties of all components because they can be special by their binder system, used fillers or by other technological solutions.

Description: 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.

Description: This book collects 47 papers corresponding to communications presented at 29th Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM, October 25-27, 2017, Toulouse, France), one focus article related to the plenary lecture given by Corrado Piconi on bioinert ceramics, and 46 contributions, related to oral and poster communications on the different topics of the meeting, organized in six different chapters. This book continues the tradition of the Bioceramics series offering, generally to young researchers, the ability to publish the work they are eager to present to the community of specialists participating to the meeting. The originality of the Bioceramics series is that the papers are available before the meeting to allow deeper, more detailed discussions than those occurring in classical meetings where exchanges are often hampered by the limited time devoted to presentations. These papers might not be perfect but we believe that the basis for discussions they provide is irreplaceable.

Description: This collection of articles based on results of the 11th Pure and Applied Chemistry International Conference (PACCON 2017, February 2 – 3, 2017, Thailand) and covers many research branches of the modern materials science: fundamental research, experience of industrial applications of latest materials, development of chemical and nano technologies. We hope that this publication will to promote and stimulate the synergistic interactions and collaborations between variuos research directions including tecnologies of catalys, nanomaterials, renewable energy applications and inorganic materials.

Description: The main aim of this Special Topics Volume is to present state of the research on the topics of characterization the modern structural materials for mechanical engineering and other areas of manufacture, latest technologies and manufacturing systems for materials processing.

Description: The International Conference on Structural and Mechanical Engineering for Security and Prevention (ICSMESP 2017, 14 – 16 June, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic) was a forum for researchers in all related engineering areas connected to the security, reliability and prevention of the various technogenic incidents. The topics of this collection include new materials for safety and security engineering; diagnosing and testing of materials; modelling and experiments; security technology of explosives; critical infrastructure protection; construction safety and security; risk analysis, assessment and management; emergency and crisis management; new standards on security engineering; rock and mining engineering; blast protection; seismity and geomechanics; fire engineering.