Key Engineering Materials

Description: This special topical volume on ‘Sustainable Building Materials and Materials for Energy Efficiency’ is aimed to cover the recent advancements and trends in the area of building materials with reference to energy efficiency and sustainability. Sustainable building materials minimizes the consumption of earth’s resources and help in maintaining the ecosystem balance and in return proves to be economical, not just during construction but also year after year. Using sustainable building materials promotes conservation of dwindling nonrenewable resources internationally. Integrating sustainable and energy efficient building materials into building projects can help reduce the environmental impacts associated with the extraction, transportation, processing, fabrication, installation, reuse, recycling, and disposal of these building industry source materials. The volume will be of special interest to environmentally-minded producers and suppliers of building materials and to engineers, architects and building workers, but it may also be of use to readers and researchers who are interested in building construction but who lack specialist technical knowledge.

Description: The ICMT is an annual international mechatronics and technology conference that has been successfully held for 17 years. The objective of ICMT is to facilitate close dialogues, networking and collaborations among experts on issues related to research and technological development in mechatronics. ICMT 2014 continues to follow the rich tradition of ICMT with this year’s conference theme: Innovative Mechatronics Technology. The topics to be discussed under this theme include robotics, intelligent mechanisms, sensors, intelligent control and actuators, MEMS/NEMS, micro/nano-manufacturing, precision measurement technology, production systems, bioengineering and mechatronics applications in life sciences, 3D printing technologies.

Description: In China, the amount of deteriorating bridges is increasing gradually, and the costs of maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of these bridges far exceed available budgets. Internationally, above issue also is paid more attention. To alleviate this issue, the bridge engineering profession continues to take positive steps towards developing more comprehensive bridge monitoring and management systems. Therefore, it is significant to combine some good works that have been done in this field, which is the original objective to introduce the recent research results in the fields of bridge health monitoring, bridge maintenance and safety in the mainland of China. This project encompasses some aspects of bridge health monitoring, maintenance and safety. Specifically, it deals with: bridge health monitoring; bridge repair and rehabilitation issues; bridge related safety and other implications.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13^th Contribution of Metallography to Solving of Production Trouble, June 17-19, 2014, Lázně Libverda, Czech Republic.
The 33 papers are grouped as follows:
I. Steels;
II. Alloys;
III. Surface Treatment and Powder Metallurgy;
VI. Welding and Creep Resistant Materials;
V. Methods of Research and Analyze;
IV. Failure Analysis

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 16th Annual Conference and 5th International Conference of the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology (CSMNT 2014), August 31-September 3, 2014, Chengdu, China.
The 226 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Materials and Technologies in the Scale of Micro and Nano;
Chapter 2: Micro/Nanofluids Research and Technologies;
Chapter 3: Measurements, Sensors and MEMS;
Chapter 4: Micro Actuators and Devices;
Chapter 5: Optics in the Scale of Micro and Nano;
Chapter 6: Energy Harvesting, Power Supply and Technologies for Fuel Cells;
Chapter 7: Bioresearch and Biomedical Engineering

Description: These are the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers, Bilbao, Spain. The collection covers a selection of 63 peer review papers covering up-to-date research result in the field. IC-MAST is an international annual held conference which tries to meet the needs for various types of sensors, particularly those ones which may be manufactured by low cost methods (i.e. hybrid sensors, smart specialization devices, particular applications not necessarily requiring integrated micro-nano technologies), covering all types of materials and physical effects.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference on Advanced Micro-Device Engineering 2013 (AMDE 2013), December 19, 2013, Kiryu, Japan.
The 28 papers are grouped as follows:
I. Micro- and Nano-Science and Technologies;
II. Photonic and Magnetic Materials and Devices; III. Electronics, Microelectronics and Communication;
IV. Novel Methods and Devices for Measurements;
V. Medical Science and Health Security

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the Selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Engineering Tribology Technology 2014 (ICETT 2014), November 21-23, 2014, Nantou, Taiwan.
The 62 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Tribology Engineering and Applications

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference of Non-Ferrous Metals - Processing and New Technologies, June 4-6, 2014, Wisła, Poland.
The 40 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Materials and Related Industrial Technologies;
Chapter 2: Metalworking

Description: The main objectives of this special issue (consisting mainly of a selection of extended papers presented at 5th International Symposium on AirCraft Materials ACMA 2014) are to push the current limits in modeling and computation in response to industrial and society challenges. It is also to control the calculations and models in a framework that takes into account the major sources of uncertainty to optimize materials and structures. Particular attention is given to the modeling and validation of composite materials and structures.