Conference topics

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
• Aerospace and automotive industries
• Computer Sciences
• Electronics and semiconductor industries
• Energy and utilities, including solar and hydro
• 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.