COMPREHENSIVE MATERIALS PROCESSING

Comprehensive Materials Processing (MPRO) provides students and professionals with a one-stop resource consolidating and enhancing the literature of the materials processing and manufacturing universe. It provides authoritative analysis of all processes, technologies and techniques which convert industrial materials from a raw material state into finished parts or products. Aiming to assist scientists and engineers in the selection, design and usage of materials, whether required in the lab or in action across industry, itmatches the adaptive complexity of emergent materials and processing technologies. Extensive traditional article-level academic discussion of core theories and applications are supplemented by applied case studies and highly advanced multimedia features. Coverage encompasses the general categories of solidification, powder, deposition and deformation processing, and will include discussion on plant and tool design, analysis and characterization of processing techniques, high-temperatures studies, and the influence of process scale on component characteristics and behaviour.

Authored and reviewed by world-class academic and industrial specialists in each subject field, so readers can be assured of the authoritative, global, comprehensive perspectives on offer.

Advanced pedagogy features materials processing in action stretching from the basics of the field to emergent materials, with integrated case studies, user-defined process schemata and multimedia modelling and functionality, promoting research efficiency and improves results through case studies of the leading technologies as they are used in 'real life'.

Draws together numerous disparate areas of research into one synthetic reference work with authoritative references to the literature, maximizing research efficiency by collating the most important and established information in one place with integrated applets linking to relevant outside sources

Saleem Hashmi PhD, DSc., CEng, FIEI, FIMechE is Emeritus Professor in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University, Ireland. He founded the School in January 1987, in addition to setting up the Material Processing Research Centre (MPRC), a research centre of excellence in the field of material processing. In 1990, Professor Hashmi established Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (AMPT), a much-needed international conference in materials processing. He continues to be the chairperson of the Steering Committee for this series of conferences. In 1998 he was appointed as editor-in-chief of Elsevier Journal of Material Processing Technology and continued in this role until 2008. In 1995, Professor Hashmi was awarded the higher doctorate degree of DSc, by the University of Manchester, the highest academic degree any university in the UK can award. Professor Hashmi has supervised or co-supervised 110 PhD and 55 MEng research students to successful completion. Over the years he has also acted as an external examiner and expert assessor for PhD candidates and engineering departments with universities in Ireland, the UK, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, and Malaysia. He has published in excess of 430 papers and 12 books so far. He has been Editor-in-Chief on two MRWs with Elsevier, Comprehensive Materials Finishing and Comprehensive Materials Processing.