This interdisciplinary technical publication provides a lucid, comprehensive, convincing and compelling overview of the current state of the art and ongoing progress on aspects related and most relevant to the ever fascinating domain of processing and fabrication and its intrinsically interwoven relationship with materials spanning both the existing and emerging, which can be safely categorized as advanced. The spectrum of materials examined include the metallic, intermetallics, ceramics, ceramic-matrix composites, metal-matrix composites, intermetallic-matrix composites, polymers, polymer-matrix composites, semiconductor materials, biomaterials and even orthopedic materials.

The volumes contain a healthy collection of papers, immaculately compiled and articulately assembled, put forth by practicing engineers, technologists, research scientists and academician from 13 countries. Spread in twelve sections which include 84 technical papers, these volumes cover the following area

01. Processing of Metals, Metallic Materials and Metal Matrix Composites
02. Behavior of Metals, Intermetallic and Metal-based Composites
03. Advances in Metal Machining and Fabrication Techniques
04. Advances in Welding Processes
05. Metallic Foams
06. Micro-electronic Materials: Fabrication and Analysis
07. Materials: Failure, Wear and Structural Analysis
08. Polymer-based composites and Nano-Composites
09. Manufacturing, Defects and Analysis of Composite Materials
10. Processing, Fabrication and Behavior of Polymeric Materials
11. Biomaterials and Bio-composites
12. Orthopedic Materials.