This special volume brings together the latest advances in, and applications of, iron and steel, micro/nano materials, metal alloy materials, composites, earthquake-resistant structures, materials and design, tooling testing and evaluation of materials, waste engineering and management, etc. It will not only provide readers with a broad overview of the latest advances, but also constitute a handbook for use by researchers in this field.Selected and peer reviewed from presentations at the April 2011 Second International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, held in Guilin, China, nearly 500 papers focus on advanced materials in and for manufacturing. They cover iron and steel, micrometer and nanometer materials, building materials, metal alloys, composites, materials and design for earthquake resistant structures, waste engineering and management, and other related topics. Among specific topics are the effect of high magnetic fields on diffusion behavior of carbon in pure iron, structural evolution in steel wires during drawing, characterizing protein powder from waste rabbit hair, surfactants-controlled morphosynthesis of strontium carbonate, performance tests of surface burning for firestop materials, tri-axial shrinkage tests of unsaturated compacted clay, interaction between cerium and arsenic, pressurless sintering and investigating properties of silicon nitride, the tensile property of flax/polyester composites after water treatment, the nonlinear finite element analysis of shearwalls with various types of openings, the experimental study of glass ceramics from liquid hematite slag, manufacturing non-toxic lava from incineration ash recovered using plasma fusing technology, and preparing activated carbons from lignite for electrochemical capacitors by microwave and electrical furnace heating. The three volumes are paged and indexed together.

This special volume brings together the latest advances in, and applications of, iron and steel, micro/nano materials, metal alloy materials, composites, earthquake-resistant structures, materials and design, tooling testing and evaluation of materials, waste engineering and management, etc. It will not only provide readers with a broad overview of the latest advances, but also constitute a handbook for use by researchers in this field.Selected and peer reviewed from presentations at the April 2011 Second International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering, held in Guilin, China, nearly 500 papers focus on advanced materials in and for manufacturing. They cover iron and steel, micrometer and nanometer materials, building materials, metal alloys, composites, materials and design for earthquake resistant structures, waste engineering and management, and other related topics. Among specific topics are the effect of high magnetic fields on diffusion behavior of carbon in pure iron, structural evolution in steel wires during drawing, characterizing protein powder from waste rabbit hair, surfactants-controlled morphosynthesis of strontium carbonate, performance tests of surface burning for firestop materials, tri-axial shrinkage tests of unsaturated compacted clay, interaction between cerium and arsenic, pressurless sintering and investigating properties of silicon nitride, the tensile property of flax/polyester composites after water treatment, the nonlinear finite element analysis of shearwalls with various types of openings, the experimental study of glass ceramics from liquid hematite slag, manufacturing non-toxic lava from incineration ash recovered using plasma fusing technology, and preparing activated carbons from lignite for electrochemical capacitors by microwave and electrical furnace heating. The three volumes are paged and indexed together.