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 structures
- Ceramics and systems
- Biomaterials, bio-tribology and devices
- Nano and nanotechnology
- Smart and adaptive material systems, including intelligent aeronautical materials and structures
- Advanced experimental testing methods
- Areas of Applications
- 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 severe loading conditions including shock waves
- Advanced aeronautical materials
- 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, modeling and prototyping
- Fatigue and damage 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 behavior
- Performance stability of engineering materials and structures
- 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
- Material aging
- Environment, health and safety
- Informatics and standards
- Material recycling
- Social and economic impact
- New directions
- Others.
Metals and alloys
- Metals and alloys for thermal energy production
- Metals and alloys for severe 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, modeling 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
- Material aging
- Material recycling
- New directions
- Others.
Composite materials and structures
- Advanced composites and aerospace materials
- Fiber-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
- Homogenous 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
- Functional composites
- Polymeric fibers to concrete adhesion
- 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 modeling, 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
- Material aging
- Material recycling
- 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
- Material aging
- Material recycling
- New directions
- Others.
Biomaterials and devices
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Biomechanics and bioengineering
- Biomedical materials, systems, devices and pertinent informatics
- Biomemetics and bio-interfacial sciences
- Biomaterials (Implants, Devices, Sensors)
- Bio-composites
- Medical Biotechnology
- Inorganic non-metallic matrix composites
- Organic-inorganic hybrid composites
- 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
- Bioinformatics and bioengineering
- Advances in biosciences as pertinent to human performance in a severe environment
- Advances in prostheses
- Adaptive dynamic biomaterials and systems
- Biomaterials aging
- Advances in experimental methods as pertinent to biomaterials and biosystems
- Functional characterization of biomaterials and systems
- Material recycling
- New directions
- Others.
Nano and nanotechnology
- Nanostructures and nanomechanics
- Nanotubes
- MEMS/NEMS and devices
- Microstructures and photonics
- Multifunctional, hybrid and nanomaterials
- Bio-MEMS/Bio-NEMS materials and devices including Biomimetics
- Numerical methods, optimization and prototyping including simulation
- Advanced experimental methods
- Nano-manufacturing processes
- Nano-manufacturing characterization techniques
- Social and economic impacts
- New directions
- Others.
Smart and adaptive material systems
- Intelligent materials and structures, and their applications
- Smart micro- and nanoelectronic devices and systems (including fiber-optic sensors)
- Self-healing materials with time-memory
- Functionalization of adaptive materials and pertinent engineering structures
- Smart polymers (including smart paints)
- Polymers and communication
- Neural networks and fuzzy systems
- 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
- Systems intelligence
- Control of intelligent systems and control intelligence
- Adaptive dynamic materials and systems
- Advanced experimental methods
- Industry, human factors and social issues
- Emergent technologies and 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)
- Spectroscopic solutions: (FT – IR) * IR Microscopy * Raman * NMR * UV-Vis
- Artificial intelligence and pattern recognition techniques as pertinent to engineering materials and their applications
- Other related scientific/engineering and technological research areas
- New directions.
Areas of Applications
- Energy and utilities, including solar and hydro
- Aerospace and automotive industries
- Computer Sciences
- Electronics and semiconductor industries
- Energy and utilities
- Environment and civil infrastructure
- Forest and paper products
- Health Sciences
- Materials, chemical industries and green manufacturing
- Medical and pharmaceutical industries
- Social and economic aspects
- National security and defence
- Other related scientific/engineering and technological research areas
Other related scientific/engineering and technological research areas
- All Engineering Disciplines
- Biochemistry; Biology; Biotechnology
- Bio-derived Novel Materials
- Biological Sciences
- Cell-engineering; Chemical; Chemistry
- Chemical Sciences
- Clinical Medicine
- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
- Educational Sciences
- Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering
- Electronics; Electronic engineering; Energy; Environment
- Energy and Fuels
- Information Science and Bioinformatics
- Physical Chemistry
- Forest and paper products technologies
- Geology
- Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry
- Life Sciences
- Machinery; Maritime; Mathematics; Metallurgy
- Mathematics
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Oceanography
- Physics
- Physical Sciences
- Other Engineering and Technology Disciplines.