Table of Contents

Preface; Fe-Rich Phases in Al-Si Cast Alloys; Multifractal Analysis of the Unstable Plastic Flow; In situ Reactive Infiltration Process-A New Route for Synthesising Magnesium Matrix Composites; Producing Ultrafine Grained Materials through Friction Stir Processing; Fabrication, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of Composites consisting of Ultrafine-Grained Al-5083 Matrix and Nano-Sized SiC reinforcing Particles; Failure/Yield Surface of Materials: A View from Strain Space; Separation of Variables and Exact Solution of the Dirac Equations in some Cosmological Backgrounds; PU/PANI Conducting Composites Processing with Nonsolvent; Index.