Scientific Books Collection

The 7th International Conference on Material Engineering and Manufacturing (ICMEM 2023) and the 6th International Conference on Materials Design and Applications (ICMDA 2023) have been successfully held at the Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, April 7-10, 2023. This book comprises the selected peer-reviewed articles from the conferences to present the research results related to the latest advanced topics and trends in the fields of materials engineering, materials processing technologies and applications.

This book contains the selected peer-reviewed articles that were presented at the 3rd International Conference of Engineering Sciences (ICES 2022), Baghdad, Iraq, held on December 14-15, 2022. This edition is dedicated to the latest research in materials science, chemical technologies, geotechnics, building materials, and laser engineering.

2023 8th International Conference on Mechanical Structures and Smart Materials (ICMSSM2023) was held from the 8th to the 9th of July, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference covered invited, oral, and poster presentations from scientists to establish platforms for collaborative research projects in the area of materials science, mechanical structures and functional and smart materials.

The International Congress on Educational Research, Materials Science and Engineering (ICEMSE 2022) is organized by Mohammed First University - Oujda represented by the Laboratory of Materials, Waves, Energy and Environment (LaMOn2E) in collaboration with other partners. The 2022 meeting was held on October 25-27, 2022, at Saïdia, Morocco. The general aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for researchers and professionals from various fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, and to serve as a forum for interdisciplinary researchers in different areas related to the interaction between engineering, materials science, and education. The ICEMSE’2022 invited research papers that cover these topics. Throughout this event, a wide range of themes related to educational research, engineering, and materials science innovation were addressed and exposed. These days were animated by professors and researchers emeritus in the fields of conference topics in the form of Oral/Poster contributions, workshops, and round tables.

This book includes the selected papers presented at the 13^th International Conference: Innovative Technology for Joining Advanced Materials (TIMA 22) held in Timișoara, România, by videoconference, during November 24-25, 2022. The conference takes place every year and is traditionally organized by the National R&D Institute for Welding and Material Testing - ISIM Timișoara in cooperation with ”Politehnica” University of Timișoara and Romanian Academy of Technical Science, Timișoara Branch.

This book contains full text peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th Manufacturing Engineering Society International Conference (MESIC 2023) held in Sevilla (Spain) from 28 to 30 June 2023 and covers a wide range of research results and engineering solutions on the topics of advances and innovations in manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing, trends in manufacturing systems and automation, metrology and quality in manufacturing, Industry X.0 and digital manufacturing, as well as manufacturing engineering in society. This publication will be helpful to many researchers and engineers in the industrial area.

The 6th International Conference on Functional Materials Science 2022 (6th ICFMS 2022) is the sixth activities for gathering and discussing some research in materials sciences. The main theme of the ICFMS 2022 was "Trend in Functional Materials: From Fundamental to Applications". This conference was organized by the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) together with Padjadjaran University, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), University of Indonesia (UI), and Gadjah Mada University (UGM). This conference aimed to improve and continue communication among researchers in materials sciences and related fields. The scope of experimental results presented in ICFMS 2022 is in the range of materials sciences including Advanced and Functional Materials, Energy Conversion, Materials and Devices, New Materials for Energy, Biomaterials, Theoretical/Modeling/Computer Simulations of Functional Materials, Spectroscopy forAdvanced Materials, Hybrid and Composite Materials and Magnetic Materials.

Full-text papers selected by peer review from the submissions to the Asia Pacific Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (APCSRM 2022, November 14-16, 2022, Xuzhou, China) and presented in this book cover cutting-edge research on silicon carbide and related materials in the direction of materials, devices, and applications.

This book is a collection of selected and reviewed papers presented at the Symposium of Materials Science and Chemistry. This symposium was part of the 8th International Conference on Science and Technology 2022, held on September 7-8, 2022, hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The collection offers the readers the latest research results from the particular areas of analytical, environmental, and green chemistry, biomaterials, condensed materials, molecular sieves and applications, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, organic chemistry and life sciences, organic polymers, physical and theoretical chemistry, and zeolites.

The present edition of the International Conference on Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites (S2P) is the 17^th of a series of conferences on semisolid processing of metals and composites started in 1990 in France. The topics of interest are many: development of innovative materials and composites, microstructural and mechanical characterization, semi-solid material preparation and related technologies, modelling and simulation, industrial applications, interactions between semisolid processing and additive manufacturing. As known, semisolid processing is a foundry process in which the mold is filled with partially solid metal, instead of liquid metal. This allows to avoid a turbulent flow of the liquid metal, leading to lower porosities due to gas entrapment, while ensuring optimum filling of the die, even when thin walls are present. Also, shrinkage porosities are reduced since the alloy is partially solid during the mold filling. These features, typical only of semisolid processing, are gaining new interest, for instance, for the production of heat sinks with complex geometries and thin walls as the one used in electric vehicles. In addition, mechanical properties are improved, as well as the corrosion and wear resistance, due to the peculiar globular microstructure, resulting in the possibility to manufacture high-performance structural components. At the same time, the metal fills the die at a lower temperature than in conventional foundry process, resulting in a prolonged lifetime of the die. Last but not least, the surface finish of these castings is extremely good. The conference has been organized by the Italian Association of Metallurgy (AIM) and the University of Brescia (Italy).