He F. (Ed.) Materials Engineering

Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland, 2014, 186 pages, ISBN: 3038351547Applied Mechanics and MaterialsA great number of innovative works & efforts are being undertaken by scientists and
engineers worldwide to meet ever-increasing demand for advanced materials, to put forward
for R & D and to speed up the practical applications of emerging new materials. This book
thus aims to provide an in-depth coverage of current researching trends pertinent to materials
science and engineering ranging from new materials design and characterization, to materials
manufacturing process optimization, to computer-aided materials calculations. The targeted
readers are undergraduates, researchers and industrial engineers who need to keep abreast of
most recent advances in these important topics.In general, this book covers 28 papers accepted for presentations in the 2014 2nd
International Conference on Materials Engineering (ICMEN2014), which was held in the
beautiful city of Nanjing, China, between May 17th and May 18th, 2014. These papers have
touched upon the researching fronts and hot topics in materials engineering, such as
innovative synthesis of new materials, new characterization of materials, structural-property
relationship, practical materials processing technologies, and other material-related theories
(including modeling, performance analysis, effects of key factors). In particular, quite some
highlights can be found in this book. To name a few, the works on synthesis of polymeric
composite, unusual processing methods for alloy, high strengthened cements obtained are all
very innovative and appealing to readers.You may have sensed that this book reports many works coming from truly multidiscipline
areas in materials engineering. It is organized on four sections in sequence. The first section
focuses on Energy and Environment Materials, while the second dealing with Function and
Electronic Material. Papers concerning High Performance Structural Materials are put into the
third section . The last section concentrates on papers on Materials Processing Technology,
including Materials Processing and Handling, Semiconductors materials manufacturing,
Fatigue and Fracture, and Structural modeling, and so on so forth.