Introduction
5th International Conference on Material Science & Smart Materials “MSSM 2018”
August 7-10, 2018 University of the West of Scotland Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies 1st CALL FOR PAPERS
The purpose of this conference on Materials Science and Smart Materials is to provide a forum for both researchers and practitioners around the world to present papers on recent developments in the fields of Materials characterisation, Design, Development Manufacturing and application. The conference will provide a forum for presenting research papers by internationally recognised experts and young scientists working in the field of Materials Science and Smart Materials. The organising committee of the conference invites papers from researchers and practitioners from academic as well as industry within the scope of the conference subjects.
Scope The conference particularly welcome papers related to industrial based projects. Papers dealing with one or more of the following topics will be considered for the conference: • Metallic Materials • Ceramic Materials • Composite Materials • Polymeric Materials • Electronic Materials • Biomaterials • Fundamental Materials Science • Materials Applications, Performance and Life Cycle • Materials Property and Characterization • Nanostructured Materials • Sensors and structural identification • Active polymers, materials and actuators • Smart Biomaterials and Bioinspired Smart Materials and Systems • Energy Storage Materials and Energy Harvesting • Quantum Materials and Metamaterials • Piezoelectrics and Piezomagnetics • 3D Printing and Smart Coatings and Surfaces • Magnetic Materials and Smart Materials for Specific Applications • MEMS and structural control and Active materials in MEMS applications
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Vibration and shape control Adaptive crashworthiness Compliant materials and mechanisms Multifunctional composite design, modelling optimization Materials for energy storage and Fuel Cells
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Prizes Sponsored prizes, will be awarded for the best papers presented by graduate students. Judges will decide on the awards based on the quality of both the written paper, and the presentation.
The venue The conference will be held at UWS Paisley Campus, Paisley forms part of a contiguous urban area with Glasgow , the distance is around 11Km from Glasgow city centre. Glasgow International Airport is located around Paisley (4 km to UWS Paisley Campus), Prestwick Airport is located to south paisley (45 km, 35 min by train from the airport to UWS Paisley Campus), Edinburgh Airport (80 Km, 1 h to Glasgow Centre).
Publication: Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following Elsevier Journals: Materials & Design (IF: 4.364) Materials Characterization (IF: 2.714) Reference Module on Materials Science and Materials Engineering (Elsevier) Encyclopedia of Smart Materials (Elsevier)
Sessions, Workshops and Symposiums MSSM2018 welcome you to suggest or organise Sessions, Workshops and Symposiums. Submission of Abstracts Interested contributors are requested to submit abstract(s) of up to 200 words to the email below. MSSM2018 Organising Committee Prof. A.G. Olabi (Conference Chair) Prof Des Gibson (Conference Prof. Hussam Jouhara Dr Tugrul Comlekci Dr Zaki El-Hassan Dr Farhad Anvari Dr Michele Cano Dr Adelaide Marzano Dr Bassam Rakhshani Dr Alexandre Gagnon Dr Parag Vichare Dr Evi Viza Dr Andy Durrant Dr Patty Munoz De Escalona Dr James Findlay Mr Tony Leslie Dr Mojtaba Mirzaeian Dr Tony Murmu Dr Adel Abdel-Wahab Dr Cristina Rodriguez Prof Osama Basmage Dr K Benyounis Dr A. Alaswad Dr A Baroutaji Dr C Dr H Achour Dr A Al Makky Dr S Karazi
International Advisory Committee:
Dr A Albadawi Mr T. Wilberforce Mr F. Nisar Ms R. Anyanwu Mr C. Onumaegbu Mr O. Ijaodola Mr A. Alanazi Mr O. Alghoul Mr E. Ogungbemi Mr Q. Abbas Important Dates: Receipt of abstracts 31/04/2018 Notification of abstract acceptance 10/05/2018 Receipt full paper 30/06/2018 Notification of full paper acceptance 10/07/2018 Conference 07-10/08/2018
Registration Fees
Before
After
10/07/2018 10/07/2018 Author/ Delegate £400 £450 Committee Member £370 £420 Session Organiser £350 £400 Student £300 £350 Registration fees cover participation in all sessions of the conference, a copy of the proceedings, lunches, refreshments and conference dinner. Author could submit maximum 2 papers (one oral presentation + one poster)
All Correspondence: MSSM-2018 Team; Email:
[email protected] or
[email protected] as well.; or Prof. Abdul Ghani Olabi Tel: +44-141-8483450, Skype name: olabia1 Email:
[email protected] Web Addressbe: http://MSSM2018.uws.ac.uk Or htttp://www.MSSM2018.uws.ac.uk
Prof Abdul Ghani Olabi (UK) Prof Des Gibson (UK) Prof Ian Baker (USA) Prof Alexander Korsunsky (UK) Prof Jifeng Liu (USA) Prof. M.S.J. Hashmi (Ireland) Prof. Paulo Davim (Portuga)l Prof. Michele Dasissti (Italy) Prof Hussam Jouhara (UK) Dr Sumsun Naher (UK) Prof. Jurij Krope (Slovenia) Prof. Socrates Kaplanis (Greece) Prof Susmita Bose (USA) Prof Amit Bandyopadhyay (USA) Prof Tofail Syed (Ireland) Prof Saiful Amri Mazlan (Malaysia) Dr Michal Mazur (Poland) Prof. Eric Dimla (Brunei) Prof Izwan Ismail (Malaysia) Professor Richard Yongqing Fu (UK) Professor Xiuhua Fu (China) Prof. Stefano Cordiner (Italy) Prof Osama Basmage (Ireland) Prof. S. Orhan Akansu (Turkey) Prof. David Kennedy (Ireland) Prof. Darko Goričanec (Slovenia) Prof. Zhiyuan Liu (China) Dr. Fouad Al-Mansour (Slovenia) Prof. Francesco Di Maria (Italy) Dr Zhien Zhang (China) Prof. Luigi Alloca (Italy) Prof. Faek Diko (Germany) Prof. M.A. Sayegh (Poland) Dr. Peter Trop (Slovenia) Prof Abderrahmane Hamidat (Algeria) Dr. Danijela Urbancl (Slovenia) Dr. Khaled Benyounis (Ireland) Dr. Rafat Al Afif (Austria) Prof. A.M.Hamoda (Qatar) Prof. Mohamad Ramadan (Lebanon)
