PROCEEDINGS:Submitted papers will be Peer-Reviewed (Double blind, and conducted by the technical program committee) and the accepted ones will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be submitted for indexing in Ei Compendex, Scopus, IET etc. major databases. JOURNAL COOPERATION-SPECIAL ISSUEMaterials & Design (ISSN: 0264-1275) CiteScore: 6.25 Impact Factor: 5.775-Year Impact Factor: 5.83Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 2.43 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.951 Indexing: SciSearch/Science Citation Index ExpandedSCISEARCH, Materials Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, INSPEC - Physics AbstractsMetals Abstracts, Cast Metals Journal, Research Alert, Scopus, EI Compendex. **Committee**Conference Chair:Prof. Alexander M. Korsunsky, Trinity College, Oxford University, UK Conference Co-Chair:Prof. Kwang Leong Choy, University College London, UK Program Chairs:Prof. Marco Casini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;Prof. Geoffrey Mitchell, Institute Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal. Local Chair:Assoc. Prof. Ramirez-Castellanos Julio, Universidad Complutense, Spain Technical Committee:Prof. Ruda Harry E., University of Toronto, Canada;Prof. Jian Lu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Asst. Prof.Hamid Abdolvand, Western University, Canada;Prof. Igor Tsukrov, University of New Hampshire, USA;Prof. Michael Zaiser, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany;Dr. Mehran Monavari, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany;Prof.Wenjun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Prof. Michael Atzmon, University of Michigan, USA;Asst. Prof.Liang Qi, University of Michigan, USA;Assoc. Prof. Alejandro Sosnik, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;Asst. Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;Assoc. Prof. Shlomo Berger, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel;Assoc. Prof. Ichiro Daigo, The University of Tokyo, Japan;Assoc. Prof. Maria Benelmekki, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway;Prof.Gennady Chitov, Laurentian University, Canada;Prof. Mohamed Azzouz, Laurentian University, Canada;Prof. Zhili Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China;