Edited by: Silvio de Barros, Pedro Manuel Calas Lopes Pacheco, Hector Reynaldo Meneses Costa, Ricardo Alexandre Amar de Aguiar, Rodinei Medeiros Gomes and Sandro Marden Torres

Online since: June 2013

Description: This special issue presents 21 selected peer reviewed papers from the 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Functional and Structural Materials (FUNCMAT 2013), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 25-26, 2013. These articles provide an up-to-date knowledge concerning the field of functional and structural materials such as shape memory alloys, geopolymers, piezoelectric ceramics and special alloys. The articles therein deal with recent investigations on materials used in manufacturing processes like machining, welding, coating and adhesive bonding.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Grain Growth in Polycrystalline Materials II

Edited by: H. Yoshinaga, T. Watanabe and N. Takahashi

Online since: March 1996

Description: Grain Growth is one of the most fundamental microstructural changes, and occurs in all types of polycrystalline material. It is of major scientific interest, and of great importance in a wide range of industrial applications.