The objective of ICMST 2011 was to provide a platform where researchers, engineers, academics and industrial professionals from all over the world could present their research results and discuss developments in Manufacturing Science and Technology. This conference provided opportunities for delegates to exchange new ideas and applications face-to-face, to establish business or research contacts and to find global partners for future collaboration.
ICMAST-2011 is an international interdisciplinary conference which covers research and development in the field of materials science; especially those materials which are used for sensors, actuators, and all kinds of transducers. ICMAST-2011 aims to bring together scientists, engineers and product designers in order to fill the gap between research and development. The topics covered by ICMAST-2011 include: new materials development, fabrication technology, sensing principles and mechanisms, actuators, optical devices, electrochemical devices, mass-sensitive devices, gas sensors, biosensors, analytical microsystems, environmental aspects, process control, biomedical applications, signal processing, sensor and sensor-array chemometrics and - as a satellite event to the conference - the economics and management of high-tech laboratories and products.
WMME was held in Macau on October 29-30th, 2011. WMME 2011 aimed to provide a forum for theoretical and technical exchanges regarding advanced theories, methodologies and techniques concerning all aspects of medical materials and engineering. The 84 selected peer-reviewed papers are divided into the topics of medical materials; medical engineering; food, environment and health; thus making this work an excellent guide to the field.
The 77 selected papers on Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering are divided into the topics of: applied mechanics, civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, environmental engineering and safety, others. The work provides an excellent overview of these topics.
The development of specific textures in materials occurs either naturally or by synthesis and processing using various methods. The presence of textures in materials manifests itself in the form of anisotropic properties; the understanding of which is indispensable to precise engineering design. In addition to conventional applications in structural materials, texture control has come to be practised in the form of functional materials. This collection is an edited version of papers presented at the sixteenth international conference on the textures of materials (ICOTOM 16), held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, India on December 12-17th, 2011. The proceedings are broadly divided into six sections; the first being a collection of keynote lectures, followed by papers classified under Deformation, Deformation and Annealing, Techniques, Annealing and Materials.