These are the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials – THERMEC’2009; held during the period, August 25-29, 2006, in Berlin , Germany under the co-sponsorship of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) ,USA. This work reflects the current ensemble knowledge of world-wide researchers and engineers/technologists working on various aspects of the processing, fabrication, structure/property evaluation and applications of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials; including biomaterials and smart/intelligent materials.

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from THERMEC 2013, 8th International Conference on PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS Processing, Fabrication, Properties, Applications, December 2-6, 2013, Las Vegas, USA. The 470 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Al Alloys, Chapter 2: Mg Alloys (Prof Karl U. Kainer Symposium), Chapter 3: Ti Alloys/ Aerospace Structural Metallic Materials, Chapter 4: Steels, Chapter 5: TMP Microalloyed Steels (Prof. A. J. DeArdo Symposium), Chapter 6: High & Ultra High Temperature Materials, Chapter 7: Bio Materials, Chapter 8: Advanced Protective Coatings/Surface Engineering, Chapter 9: Composites (MMC, CMC)/ Nanocomposites/ Synthetic & Foams), Chapter 10: Interfaces & Grain Boundaries, Chapter 11: Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Storage Technologies, Batteries, Supercapacitors & Thermoelectric Materials, Chapter 12: Friction Stir Processing/Welding, Chapter 13: Materials Under Extreme Conditions, Chapter 14: Metallic Glasses/ Bulk Metallic Amorphous Materials, Chapter 15: Nanomaterials for Structural & Energy Applications, Chapter 16: Neutron Scattering & X-Ray Studies of Advanced Materials, Chapter 17: Modelling & Simulation, Chapter 18: Materials Performance, Chapter 19: Smart/Intelligent Materials & Processes, Chapter 20: Texture of Materials (Prof. G. Gottstein Symposium), Chapter 21: Ultra-Fine – Grained Materials (Prof. T. G. Langdon Symposium), Chapter 22: Welding & Joining of Advanced and Special Materials

Includes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials - THERMEC'2009; held during the period, August 25-29, 2006, in Berlin, Germany under the co-sponsorship of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), USA.