The refereed “International Journal of Advances and Trends in Engineering Materials and their Applications (IJATEMA)” publishes refereed articles on original research, short communications and reviews covering advances and trends in engineering materials and their applications. In addition to regular issues, special issues on specific subjects are published. These special issues contain invited reviews by eminent researchers in the specific field. The journal welcomes contributions in the following and related areas:
- Materials and engineering design
- Metals and alloys
- Composite materials and structures
- Ceramics materials and systems
- Biomaterials and devices
- Nano and nanotechnology
- Smart and adaptive material systems
- Advanced experimental testing methods
- Other related scientific/engineering and technological research
Materials and engineering design
- Advances and trends in industrial materials (including biomaterials) and their applications
- Advanced metallic and non-metallic materials and composite systems
- High performance materials
- Advanced composite systems
- Materials and structures under sever loading conditions including shock waves
- Heat capacity and phase transition
- Materials for energy generation industry
- Materials for non-conventional energy generation industry (e.g. fuel cells and solar panels, etc.)
- Solid-fluid interaction
- Materials performance, modelling and prototyping
- Computational structural mechanics
- Structural and multi-disciplinary optimization
- Numerical methods, including optimization and simulation, databases, etc. of the material microstructure and pertinent macroscopic response behaviour
- Performance stability
- Interfaces and couplings in various types of environment
- Reliability and security of structures through the application of advanced industrial materials
- Innovative electro-mechanical material systems to increase efficiency, reliability, safety and security of engineering structures
- New directions
- Others
Metals and alloys
- Metals and alloys for thermal energy production
- Metals and alloys for sever loading conditions including shock waves
- Light metals
- Plasticity and formability
- Functional characterization: From Micro to Macro and vice-versa
- performance, modelling and prototyping
- Fracture and damage mechanics
- Advanced materials processing, fabrication and manufacturing developments
- Wear and wear resistance
- Innovative corrosion control
- Welding and adhesive joining
- Nonlinear dynamics and coupled mechanical systems
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Composite materials and structures
- Advanced composites and aerospace materials
- Fibre-reinforced polymer composites for infrastructure applications
- Natural materials and systems
- Engineering materials made from recycled wastes
- Hybrid materials and systems for the automobile industry among others
- Inhomogenous and discrete material systems and structures
- Multilayered and fibrous reinforced composite materials and structures
- Advanced metallic and ceramic composite systems
- Various types of composite-reinforcements including organic materials
- Polymeric matrices and their derivatives
- Geologic materials and systems
- Surface and interfacial science
- Inelasticity, Viscoelasticity and Rheology
- Viscous damping and contemporary architecture
- Composite materials for infrastructure and non-conventional applications
- Joining and adhesive bonding of composite materials and pertinent structures
- Concrete and pavement research
- Microstructures and micromechanics
- Nanostructures and nanomechanics
- Multi-scale modelling, prototyping and simulation of the performance of composite systems and pertinent structures
- Advances in processing, fabrication and manufacturing methods
- Failure mechanisms and prevention of failure in composite materials and structures
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Ceramics materials and systems
- Piezoceramics systems and applications
- Ceramics and non-metallic materials and systems
- Applications of ceramics in very high temperatures thermal power applications
- Simulations, including mapping, optimization and databases
- Interfaces and couplings in severe environment
- New directions
- Others
Biomaterials and devices
- Biomedical materials, systems, devices and pertinent informatics
- Biomemetics and biointerfacial sciences
- Microsystems technology
- Functional materials for medical applications
- Biodegradability, compostability and life cycle assessments
- Engineered biomaterials: Linking physical and chemical properties to Biology
- Erosion, corrosion and abrasion of biomaterials and systems
- Interfaces and couplings in various types of environment
- Biomechanics simulations, including mapping and optimization
- Biothermodynamics, including pharmaceutical and medical applications
- Advances in biosciences as pertinent to human performance in a severe environment
- Advances in prostheses
- Advances in experimental methods as pertinent to biomaterials and biosystems
- Functional characterization of biomaterials and systems
- New directions
Nano and nanotechnology
- Nanostructures and nanomechanics
- MEMS/NEMS and devices
- BioMEMS/BioNEMS materials and devices including Biomimetics
- Numerical methods, optimization and prototyping including simulation
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
Smart and adaptive material systems
- Intelligent materials and structures, and their applications
- Smart micro- and nanoelectronic devices and systems
- Self-healing materials with time-memory
- Functionalization of adaptive materials and pertinent engineering structures
- Integrated and intelligent simulation techniques
- Intelligent production devices
- Electronic and computational materials Reliability and security of structures through the application of advanced industrial materials
- Innovative electro-mechanical material systems to increase efficiency, reliability, safety and security of engineering structures
- Superconducting design applications
- Advanced experimental methods
- New directions
- Others
Advanced experimental testing methods
- Experimental testing methods for the determination of the mechanical and physical characteristics of advanced engineering materials
- Maintainability and health monitoring
- Artificial intelligence and pattern recognition techniques as pertinent to engineering materials and their applications
- New directions.
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