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:

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

• 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.

• Modelling and Simulation in Metallurgical Processing.

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

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

• High Temperature Alloys, Aeronautical and Space materials.

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

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

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

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

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

• Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution.

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

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

• Sustainability through Materials Processing and Waste Valorization.

• Non Destructive Test of Materials.   

• Prediction and Evaluation on Structure and Performance of Materials.

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