These 171 peer-reviewed papers, from the 3rd international conference on material and manufacturing technology (ICMMT 2012) held on the 5th and 6th may 2012 in chengdu, china, are grouped into thirteen chapters: novel developments in composites; nanotechnology and nanomaterials; thermo-mechanical and high strain rate effects, and energy properties of materials; trends in materials and manufacturing; deformation, stress analysis and vibration; applications of finite element methods, neural networks and fuzzy techniques in manufacturing; numerically controlled and non-conventional machining; fatigue, fracture and failure analysis and fault diagnosis; advancement in manufacturing technology; virtual design, modeling, simulation and optimization; computer applications in manufacturing and analysis; production information systems, environment, emission, and combustion; related topics.
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