Books by Keyword: Alloy

Description: The 9th International Conference on Materials Engineering and Applications (ICMEA) and the 14th International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (ICNMS) were successfully held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, from January 14 to 17, 2026 and in Singapore from January 21 to 24, respectively. As interdisciplinary pillars of modern science and engineering, materials science and nanoscience drive groundbreaking innovations across electronics, energy, healthcare, environmental remediation, etc. The presented article collection will be attractive to a wide range of specialists in modern applied materials science.

Description: This volume presents the proceedings of two jointly held conferences: the 12th International Conference on Nanomaterials and Materials Engineering (ICNME) and the 6th International Conference on Engineering Materials (ICEM), held in Phuket, Thailand, from December 10–13, 2025. Organised by the Chemistry and Materials Society and sponsored by Sichuan University, these conferences provided an international forum for researchers, academics, and industry experts to exchange recent advances and explore collaborations in nanomaterials, structural materials, and engineering and industrial technologies.

Description: This special edition presents research contributions addressing modern challenges in manufacturing, biofuel synthesis, and environmental protection, and highlighting the role of advanced technologies and materials in promoting sustainability, efficiency, and innovations.

Description: This special edition presents a collection of research dedicated to advanced materials and surface engineering technologies. The contributions emphasise the growing importance of materials with enhanced performance, durability, and multifunctionality for modern industrial and engineering applications. The presented edition is intended to serve as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in modern materials science and engineering applications.

Description: The 29th International ESAFORM Conference on Material Forming (ESAFORM 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece, from 27 to 29 April 2026) is a joint scientific event of the oldest and most prestigious Mechanical Engineering academic schools in Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of Athens, respectively. The conference publication contains sixteent chapters the topicaly related with 16 Mini-Symposia around the following topics: additive manufacturing, composites forming processes, extrusion and drawing, forging and rolling, formability of metallic materials, friction and wear in metal forming, incremental and sheet metal forming, innovative joining by forming technologies, optimization and inverse analysis in forming, machining, cutting and severe plastic deformation, material behaviour modelling, new and advanced numerical strategies for material forming, non-conventional processes, polymer processing and thermo-mechanical properties, sustainability in material forming, and advanced metal casting. The edition will be useful for a wide range of specialists in structural materials forming processes.

Description: The special edition contains articles on the practical applications of various conventional and non-conventional methods for modelling and numerical investigation of the mechanical properties and behaviour of structural materials under testing and technological processing. From empirical modelling and analysis of elastic-viscoplastic deformability to micromechanical modelling and the application of machine learning, the presented approaches provide valuable information for researchers and engineers in materials science, necessary for modernisation and the development of technological processes.

Description: Manufacturing and, more generally, implementing the strategies of the Circular Economy (CE) paradigm are among the most important targets. This special edition is designed to stimulate scientific debate and the development of technologies for the environmental sustainability of materials forming processes.

Description: Topics covered by this special edition include to: Development of new and optimization of existing forging and hot forming; mathematical description and parameterisation of flow, damage and fracture behaviour of new workpiece and tool materials; mathematical description and parameterisation of friction, heat transfer and wear in forging and rolling; development of numerical methods, formulations and algorithms for simulation of forging and rolling processes; validation of simulation models on industrial examples; computer-aided process control. Furthermore, the results of the Collaborative Research Centre 1153 on Tailored Forming are presented. This edition, without a doubt, will be of great benefit to the rich daily machinery engineers and researchers whose activities are related to metalworking.

Description: This special edition focuses on contributions that detail the results of new developments and provide a deeper understanding of incremental and sheet material forming processes. Research concerns the design of novel processes, in-process measurement techniques, innovative tooling, methods for the analysis and modelling of friction phenomena and methods for the optimisation, robust design and control of incremental and sheet forming processes, etc. The edition will be helpful for specialists in mechanical engineering.

Description: The main topics of this special edition are: mechanical fastening operations; joints based on friction welding; hybrid joining processes; innovative joining processes, including the forming or pre-forming of the materials to be joined; computational methods for joining process simulation; applications of inverse analysis to material characterisation in joining conditions, etc. The edition will be helpful for specialists in mechanical engineering.