Key Engineering Materials

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This special volume presents the latest advances in the science and technology of high-performance ceramics. More than 600, already-excellent, contributions were further refined, using a strict peer-review process, to yield the almost 400 manuscripts included in this collection. The result is an incomparable guide to the subject-matter of the title.

Description: Advanced Materials XII is a compilation of selected peer-reviewed papers.
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The ever-increasing changes and complexities that characterize the present-day needs of industry have driven a growing demand for technical information on advanced materials. The ultimate aim of this publication is to present the latest information on recent progress, achievements and innovations in the field of advanced materials research and technology. The technical data presented here is likely to aid scientists and researchers working in the field of advanced materials

Description: With the development of China, building materials These are the proceedings of the 3^rd Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong Conference on Green Building Materials (GBM2011), held on the 25-27th November, 2011, in Wuhan, China. With the rapid development of China, building materials have come to consume vast resources and energy. As a result, green building materials have become increasingly attractive to government, researchers and industry.
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The aim of these proceedings is to promote the development of green building materials.

Description: This special volume on Materials Integration is based upon peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the International Symposium on the Global COE program, in conjunction with the 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Materials (ASPT2011) and the 8th Materials Science School for Young Scientists, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (Kinken-Wakate 2011).
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This volume covered the principal research fields of (i) Infrastructural and Bio- materials, (ii) Electronic materials, (iii) Energy and Environmental materials and (iv) Basic materials science. Materials integration is expected to produce a synergistic effect and permit the development and production of non-conventional materials exhibiting new functionalities.

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The contributions to this special collection cover a wide range of subject areas related to EPD and reflect the impressive versatility of that technique for materials processing. The topics discussed range from theoretical studies of the fundamental mechanisms of EPD, to novel techniques which exploit EPD for the efficient and cost-effective fabrication of a variety of advanced materials.

Description: This two-volume set of technical articles on materials science represents the proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference of the European Scientific Association for Material Forming held in Erlangen, Germany during March, 2012.
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The 227 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into the chapters: Keynotes; Formability of Metallic Materials; Forging and Rolling; Composite-Forming Processes; Semi-Solid Processes; Lightweight Design and Energy Efficiency in Metal Forming; New and Advanced Numerical Strategies for Material Forming; Extrusion and Drawing; Friction and Wear in Material Processing; Nano-Structured Materials and Microforming; Inverse Analysis Optimization and Stochastic Approaches; Constitutive Models for Metallic Alloys (Multiscale and Continuum); Innovative Joining by Forming Technologies; Incremental and Sheet-Metal Forming; Sheet-Bulk-Metal Forming; Heat Transfer Modelling; Structures, Properties and Processing of Polymers; Non-Conventional Processes; Machining and Cutting; Integrated Design, Modelling and Reliability Assessment in Forming (I-DMR).

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These 81 papers, all written by Chinese researchers, are grouped into 8 chapters: Micro/Nano Transducer/Acutar/Robot, Microfluidic Devices and Systems, Micro/ Nano Fabrication and Measurement Technologies, Microfluidics and nano fluids, Nano Material Research/Nanotube/Nanowire Devices, MEMS/NENS and Applications, Nanometer Biological / Nano Medicine and Packaging Technology.. This work offers an excellent overview of current research on MEMS and nano-technology in China. It will be invaluable to researchers, graduate students and engineers who work in the fields of MEMS and nano technology.

Description: This book describes the most recent Advances in Manufacturing Systems presented at the 4^th Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (MESIC2011), which was held during September 2011 in Cadiz, Spain. Flexible, Intelligent and Emergent Manufacturing Systems, Quality, Quality Control and Quality Management, Production Engineering and Planning are, together with others, the topics which can be found herein. The book is therefore essential reading matter for manufacturing engineers working in the fields mentioned.

Description: The Asian Workshop on Polymer Processing 2011(AWPP2011), organized by JSPP, SAMP and the China Science Foundation, was hosted by Qingdao University of Science and Technology in Qingdao, China from November 4 to 7th, 2011.
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Numerous leading experts on polymer materials and processing presented their recent research finding at the meeting, and the result is an invaluable state-of-the-art guide to the subject.

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The goal of this collection of peer-reviewed papers is to bring together researchers from academia and industry, as well as practitioners, so as to share ideas, problems and solutions related to the multifaceted aspects of Advanced Materials in Microwaves and Optics.