8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing (ICPNS' 2016)

The conference will cover all aspects on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing. It will focus on, but not restricted to, the following topics:

1.Physical Simulation and Numerical Modeling of Material Processing, Theories, Developments and Prospects.

2.The Industrial Processes of Welding and Bonding, Heat and Chemical Treatments, Casting, Forging and Plastic Deformation, Powder Metallurgy, High Energy Beam Processing and Other Advanced Processes.

3.Modelling and Simulation in Metallurgical Processing.

4.Software Engineering and Software Development for Material Processing, Computation and Design.

5.Iron and Steels, Nonferrous Alloys, Ceramics, Polymer, Composites.

6.High Temperature Alloys, Aeronautical and Space materials.

7.Ultrafine Grained Materials, Amorphous Materials, Metallic Glasses, High Entropy Alloys.

8.Nano Materials and Nano Technology, Micro-Mechanical Characterization of Materials.

9.Energy Materials, Electronic Encapsulating Materials, Biomaterials, Shape Memory Alloy, Smart Materials, Opto-electronic and Other Functional Materials.

10.Structural and Functional Thin Films, Surface Engineering and Coating.

11.Additive Manufacturing, 3D Print, Processes and Materials.

12.Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution.

13.Material Design Approaches and Experiences, Computation Materials Science and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Artificial Neural Network and Expert System on Material Processing.

14.Material Behavior Characterization, at Nanoscale or in Extreme Condition.

15.Sustainability through Materials Processing and Waste Valorization.

16.Non Destructive Test of Materials.

17.Prediction and Evaluation on Structure and Performance of Materials.

18.Fatigue in Materials: Fundamentals, Multiscale Modeling and Prevention.