THERMEC 2013, 8th International Conference on PROCESSING & MANUFACTURING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS Processing, Fabrication, Properties, Applications, December 2-6, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

THERMEC proceedings is collection of research papers from active /known researchers in materials science /engineering , manufacturing, processing and applications of advanced materials ranging from ferrous an d non ferrous materials to biomaterials,nanomaterials, metallic glasses, fuel cels,hydrogen storage technologies, surface engineering, welding and joining, modeling & simulation and intelligent & smart materials/ processes.

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.

These papers present advancements in all aspects of high temperature electrochemistry, from the fundamental to the empirical and from the theoretical to the applied. Topics involving the application of electrochemistry to the nuclear fuel cycle, chemical sensors, energy storage, materials synthesis, refractory metals and their alloys, and alkali and alkaline earth metals are included. Also included are papers that discuss various technical, economic, and environmental issues associated with plant operations and industrial practices.

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

Stainless steels represent a quite interesting material family, both from a scientific and commercial point of view, following to their excellent combination in terms of strength and ductility together with corrosion resistance. Thanks to such properties, stainless steels have been indispensable for the technological progress during the last century and their annual consumption increased faster than other materials. They find application in all these fields requiring good corrosion resistance together with ability to be worked into complex geometries. Despite to their diffusion as a consolidated materials, many research fields are active regarding the possibility to increase stainless steels mechanical properties and corrosion resistance by grain refinement or by alloying by interstitial elements. At the same time innovations are coming from the manufacturing process of such a family of materials, also including the possibility to manufacture them starting from metals powder for 3D printing. The Special Issue scope embraces interdisciplinary work covering physical metallurgy and processes, reporting about experimental and theoretical progress concerning microstructural evolution during processing, microstructure-properties relations, applications including automotive, energy and structural.