PFAM XIX 2011 - Nineteenth International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XIX) Conference.

Organized by the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, Mechanical Engineering Department of The University of Auckland, New Zealand, the Nineteenth International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAMXIX) is to be held in January 2011.
The purpose of this inter-disciplinary symposium is to bring together state-of-the-art developments on all aspects related to the processing and fabrication of advanced materials spanning the entire spectrum of metallic, intermetallics, ceramics, ceramic-matrix composites, metal-matrix composites, intermetallic-matrix composites, advanced polymers and polymer-matrix composites, and including surface and high-temperature coatings.

The symposium will certainly provide an attractive forum for presenting the latest advances in materials processing and fabrication by researchers and engineers from industry, research laboratories and academia. KEY-NOTE, INVITED and CONTRIBUTED papers will be included. The Key-Note and Invited papers from “leading-edge” academic and industrial research settings, in related areas, will provide a lucid and comprehensive overview of the current status and potential future directions for research. Contributed papers will attempt to cover specific problems in the same areas.

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Metals and Metal-Matrix Composites
Intermetallics and Intermetallic-Matrix Composites
Biomaterials
Metallic Glasses
Superconducting Materials
Fuel Cell Material
Manufacturing Technologies
3-D Imaging
Ceramics and Ceramic-Matrix Composites
Polymers and Polymer-Matrix Composites
Nano Materials
Semiconductor Materials
Magnetic Materials
Hydrogen Storage Materials
Surface Coatings
Materials Simulations
Where possible, presentations on the above should relate to applications in one of the following four industrial focus areas:

Automative and Aerospace
Electronics and Communications
Failure Analysis: Implications and Applications
Energy Applications and Utilities
Biomedical and Healthcare
Heavy Equipment, Machinery and Goods

http://www.pfam-19.auckland.ac.nz/