Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

Functional and Smart Materials:1. Materials Science and Engineering. 2. Materials Property and Characterization. 3. Materials Applications, Performance, and Life Cycle. 4. Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Materials. 5. Composites. 6. Micro / Nano Materials. 7. Ceramics and Glasses. 8. Feature Engineering Polymers. 9. Hard/Soft Magnetic Materials. 10. Metallic Alloys. 11. Magnetic Materials. 12. Multi-Functional Magnetic Materials. 13. Biomaterials 14. Smart/Intelligent Materials. 15. Polymeric Materials. 16. Thin Films. 17. Nanostructured Materials. 18. Sensors and Structural Identification. 19. Active Polymers, Materials, and Actuators. 20. Smart Biomaterials and Bio-inspired Smart Materials and Systems. 21. Energy Storage Materials and Energy Harvesting. 22. Quantum Materials and Metamaterials. 23. Piezoelectric and Piezomagnetic. 24. Materials for Sensor Technology.

Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Technology: 1. Conventional, Non-Conventional Machining Processes and their Hybridizations. 2. Sustainable and Green Manufacturing. 3. Material Forming & Joining Processes: Casting, welding, Brazing, Soldering, etc. 4. Materials Machining. 5. Jig and Fixtures. 6. Material Design and Development. 7. Microwave Processing of Materials. 8. Micro-Machining. 9. Laser Machining and Sintering. 10. Bio-Manufacturing. 11. Additive manufacturing. 12. New Kinds of Manufacturing: Based on New Processes or Materials. 13. Advances in Machine Tools. 14. Cryogenic Machining Process. 15. MQL/MQCL Assisted Machining Process. 16. Dry Machining Process. 17. Machining with High Pressure Cooling. 18. Nanofluid Based Machining. 19. Machining with Solid Lubricants. 20. Life Cycle Analysis of Manufacturing Processes.

Characterization, Testing, Measurement, and Metrology: 1. Mechanical Property Characterization of Construction Materials. 2. Evaluation of Material Surface Integrity. 3. Characterizations: SEM/FESEM, EDS, XRD, XPS, AFM, TEM, STEM, FTIR, DSC, TGA, DMA. 4. Mechanical Behaviour: Fracture, Damage, Fatigue. 5. Tribology and Wear. 6. Interfaces and Interphases. 7. Creep and Aggressive Environment. 8. Corrosion. 9. Measurement, Performance Analysis, and Characterization of Materials, Devices, and Systems using Advanced Technologies. 10. Characterization of Surfaces and the Relationship between Surface Properties and their Applications. 11. Surface Metrology - Measurement and Characterization of Surface Topography including Functional Properties of Surfaces. 12. Measurement & Metrology in Materials and Advanced Manufacturing: Roughness, Forces, Corrosion, Wear, Crack Propagation and Fatigue. 13. Monitoring and Control of Machining/Manufacturing Processing of Advanced Materials. 14. Optimization of Machining/Manufacturing Processing. 15. Computational Intelligence: Neural, fuzzy, Genetic, and Swarm Particle Optimization. 16. Vision-Based Control and Control Engineering.