Contributions, mini-symposia and expositions are invited in the following and related scientific/engineering and technological research areas:
- Materials and engineering design
- Metals and alloys
- Composite materials and structuresCeramics materials and systems
- Biomaterials and devices
- Nano and nanotechnology
- Smart and adaptive material systems
- Advanced experimental testing methods
- Other related scientific/engineering and technological research areas
Materials and engineering design
- Advances and trends in industrial materials (including biomaterials) and their applications
- Advanced metallic and non-metallic materials and composite systems
- High performance materials
- Advanced composite systems
- Materials and structures under sever loading conditions including shock waves
- Heat capacity and phase transition
- Materials for energy generation industry
- Materials for non-conventional energy generation industry (e.g. fuel cells and solar panels, etc.)
- Solid-fluid interaction
- Materials performance, modelling and prototyping
- Fatigue of materials and structures
- Computational structural mechanics
- Structural and multi-disciplinary optimization
- Numerical methods, including optimization and simulation, databases, etc. of the material microstructure and pertinent macroscopic response behaviour
- Performance stability
- Interfaces and couplings in various types of environment
- Reliability and security of structures through the application of advanced industrial materials
- Innovative electro-mechanical material systems to increase efficiency, reliability, safety and security of engineering structures
- Tribology
- New directions
- Others
Metals and alloys
- Metals and alloys for thermal energy production
- Metals and alloys for sever loading conditions including shock waves
- Light metals
- Metal foam and superlight components
- Plasticity and formability
- Functional characterization: From Micro to Macro and vice-versa
- performance, modelling and prototyping
- Fracture and damage mechanics
- Advanced materials processing, fabrication and manufacturing developments
- Wear and wear resistance
- Innovative corrosion control
- Welding and adhesive joining
- Nonlinear dynamics and coupled mechanical systems
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Composite materials and structures
- Advanced composites and aerospace materials
- Fibre-reinforced polymer composites for infrastructure applications
- Natural materials and systems
- Engineering materials made from recycled wastes
- Hybrid materials and systems for the automobile industry among others
- Inhomogenous and discrete material systems and structures
- Multilayered and fibrous reinforced composite materials and structures
- Advanced metallic and ceramic composite systems
- Conductive composites and their industrial applications
- Various types of composite-reinforcements including organic materials
- Polymeric matrices and their derivatives
- Geologic materials and systems
- Surface and interfacial science
- Rheology, Viscoelasticity and Anelasticity
- Viscous damping and contemporary architecture
- Composite materials for infrastructure and non-conventional applications
- Joining and adhesive bonding of composite materials and pertinent structures
- Concrete and pavement research
- Microstructures and micromechanics
- Nanostructures and nanomechanics
- Multi-scale modelling, prototyping and simulation of the performance of composite systems and pertinent structures
- Advances in processing, fabrication and manufacturing methods
- Failure mechanisms and prevention of failure in composite materials and structures
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Ceramics materials and systems
- Piezoceramics systems and applications
- Ceramics and non-metallic materials and systems
- Applications of ceramics in very high temperatures thermal power applications
- Simulations, including mapping, optimization and databases
- Interfaces and couplings in severe environment
- New directions
- Others
Biomaterials and devices
- Biomechanics and bioengineering
- Biomedical materials, systems, devices and pertinent informatics
- Biomemetics and biointerfacial sciences
- Microsystems technology
- Functional materials for medical applications
- Biodegradability, compostability and life cycle assessments
- Engineered biomaterials: Linking physical and chemical properties to Biology
- Erosion, corrosion and abrasion of biomaterials and systems
- Interfaces and couplings in various types of environment
- Biomechanics simulations, including mapping and optimization
- Biothermodynamics, including pharmaceutical and medical applications
- Advances in biosciences as pertinent to human performance in a severe environment
- Advances in prostheses
- Advances in experimental methods as pertinent to biomaterials and biosystems
- Functional characterization of biomaterials and systems
- New directions
- Others
Nano and nanotechnology
- Nanostructures and nanomechanics
- Nanotubes
- MEMS/NEMS and devices
- microstructures and photonics
- BioMEMS/BioNEMS materials and devices including Biomimetics
- Numerical methods, optimization and prototyping including simulation
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Smart and adaptive material systems
- Intelligent materials and structures, and their applications
- Smart micro- and nanoelectronic devices and systems (including fibre-optic sensors)
- Self-healing materials with time-memory
- Functionalization of adaptive materials and pertinent engineering structures
- Smart polymers (including smart paints)
- Polymers and communication
- Shape memory alloys for improved performance of fibre-reinforced plastics
- Integrated and intelligent simulation techniques
- Intelligent production devices
- Electronic and computational materials Reliability and security of structures through the application of advanced industrial materials
- Innovative electro-mechanical material systems to increase efficiency, reliability, safety and security of engineering structures
- Superconducting design applications
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Advanced experimental testing methods
- advanced experimental testing methods for the determination of the mechanical and physical characteristics of advanced engineering materials
- Lasers and engineering materials
- Maintainability and health monitoring
- New imaging technologies (including medical imaging)
- Artificial intelligence and pattern recognition techniques as pertinent to engineering materials and their applications
- New directions
- Other related scientific/engineering and technological research areas.
