Author Description

This comprehensive work contains up-to-date information, gathered from all over the world, concerning state-of-the art manufacturing science and engineering, focusing on New Materials and Processes. The 534 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into 16 chapters: Non-Ferrous Metallic Materials; Iron and Steel; Micro/Nano Materials; Ceramics; Optical/Electronic/Magnetic Materials; New Functional Materials; Building Materials; New Energy Materials; Environment-Friendly Materials; Earthquake-Resistant Materials and Design; Biomaterials; Smart/Intelligent Materials/Intelligent Systems; Polymeric Materials; Thin Films; Mechanical Behaviour and Fracture; Tooling, Testing and Evaluation of Materials.