Key Engineering Materials

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 13^th International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics (FDM 2014), September 23-25, 2014, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal.

Description: This special volume includes the papers presented at the 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA 2014) held in National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 1-5 September 2014. The 2014 conference features technical and keynote programs, the most current and relevant trends in academia, and industry, and a cultural excursion program. The topics cover engineering plasticity in various disciplines such as materials processing, damage and fracture analysis, impact dynamics, composite mechanics. Advances in plasticity on the nano, micro and macro scales and their industrial applications related to sustainable and re-manufacturing are also included.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference on Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN 2013), November 12-15, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan.
The 124 paper are grouped as follows:
Precision Metrology,
Precision Machining,
Optical Measurement,
Manufacturing Systems and Machine Tools,
Motion Control/ Polishing and Grinding,
Advanced Moulding and Precision Forming/ Advanced Technologies,
Non-Conventional Machining,
Precision Machine Design & Mechatronics,
High Precision Mechatronics / Robotics,
Others

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th International Conference on Mechanics of Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials (MuRiCO 2014), September 9-11, 2014, Ravenna, Italy.
The 80 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: General,
Chapter 2: Masonry,
Chapter 3: Materials,
Chapter 4: Masonry and Composites,
Chapter 5: Technical Reports

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 15th International Conference on Metal Forming 2014, September 21-24, 2014, Palermo, Italy .
The 159 papers are grouped as follows:
1. COATINGS AND SURFACES,
2. EXTRUSION AND DRAWING,
3. FORGING,
4. FORMABILITY,
5. INCREMENTAL FORMING,
6. JOINING AND BONDING,
7. MAGNESIUM FORMING,
8. NUMERICAL MODELLING,
9. TUBE AND HYDRO FORMING,
10. OPTIMISATION,
11. OTHER PROCESSES,
12. POWDER AND ADVANCED MATERIALS,
13. ROLLING,
14. SHEARING,
15. SHEET METAL FORMING,
16. TITANIUM FORMING

Description: This special issue of Key Engineering Materials journal is to communicate the latest progress and research of new theory, technology, method, equipment in materials processing and manufacturing automation technology field, and to grasp the forefront technological and research trends worldwide, which will drive international communication and cooperation of production, education and research in this field. The major topics covered by the special issue include Experience and Paper of Education in Special Machining Technology, Process Monitoring and Quality Control of Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Robot Technology, Agile Manufacturing, Intelligent Manufacturing, Green Manufacturing, Virtual Manufacturing, Networked Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing System and Contemporary Integrated Manufacturing System, Product Lifecycle Management, Computerized Numerical Control System and Flexible Manufacturing System, Precision Machining Technology, CAD/CAE/CAPP/CAM and Application of Product Data Management, Logistics Engineering and Equipment and Other Related Topics and so on. The guest editors would like to thank the contributors of papers, the reviewers and the Key Engineering Materials journal for helping put together this special issue.

Description: This special issue of Key Engineering Materials journal is to communicate the latest progress and research of new theory, technology, method, equipment in materials processing and manufacturing automation technology field, and to grasp the forefront technological and research trends worldwide, which will drive international communication and cooperation of production, education and research in this field. The major topics covered by the special issue include Experience and Paper of Education in Special Machining Technology, Process Monitoring and Quality Control of Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Robot Technology, Agile Manufacturing, Intelligent Manufacturing, Green Manufacturing, Virtual Manufacturing, Networked Manufacturing, Computer Integrated Manufacturing System and Contemporary Integrated Manufacturing System, Product Lifecycle Management, Computerized Numerical Control System and Flexible Manufacturing System, Precision Machining Technology, CAD/CAE/CAPP/CAM and Application of Product Data Management, Logistics Engineering and Equipment and Other Related Topics and so on. The guest editors would like to thank the contributors of papers, the reviewers and the Key Engineering Materials journal for helping put together this special issue.

Description: In China, the amount of deteriorating bridges is increasing gradually, andthe costs of maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of these bridges farexceed available budgets. Internationally, above issue also is paid moreattention. To alleviate this issue, the bridge engineering professioncontinues to take positive steps towards developing more comprehensivebridge monitoring and management systems. Therefore, it is significant tocombine some good works that have been done in this field, which is theoriginal 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 andrehabilitation issues; bridge related safety and other implications.

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).
This special topic volume is a compilation of works contributed by experts from the international scientific community in the field of Wear and Contact Mechanics. This volume presents ten papers that cover different aspects of the current areas of research in Wear and Contact Mechanics using new innovative theoretical and computational approaches based on the Finite Element Methods (FEM) and/or the Boundary Element Methods (BEM). A number of topics are addressed, such as anisotropic contact, anisotropic wear, crack-face contact and semi-permeable electric/magnetic boundary conditions in multifield materials (e.i. piezoelectric solids), dynamic contact modeling, fatigue crack growth life estimation, fatigue life assessment, fretting fatigue, fretting wear computing, rolling contact modeling, or treatment of nonmatching interfaces in contact problems.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Inorganic Environmental Materials (ISIEM 2013), October 27-31, 2013, Rennes, France.
The 55 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Cement/Gypsum/Lime,
Chapter 2: Electric Current Assisted Sintering,
Chapter 3: Energy and Sustainable Materials,
Chapter 4: Environment-Related Materials,
Chapter 5: Functional Materials,
Chapter 6: Nanotechnology,
Chapter 7: Science and Technology of Inorganic Materials,
Chapter 8: Thermoelectric Materials