Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This proceedings supplement contains further selected papers from 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 supplement contains further selected papers from the 5th International Conference on the Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials – THERMEC’2006 - held from July 4-8, 2006 in Vancouver, Canada.

This supplemental volume presents additional proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials - Thermec'2011 - which was held during the 1-5 August 2011 in Quebec City, Canada. The conference brought together researchers and engineers/technologists working on aspects of the processing, fabrication, evaluation and applications of ferrous and non ferrous materials including biomaterials, and smart/intelligent materials, and the contents reflect the latest progress made in these fields.