Dear colleagues,

I would like to inform you about 4th International Conference on Materials Design and Applications 2022. The 4th International Conference on Materials Design and Applications 2022 will take place in Porto, Portugal, 7-8 July 2022 (www.fe.up.pt/mda2022). The conference venue is the campus of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), which offers excellent facilities for high quality scientific interactions. FEUP is located in the town of Porto in the Northern region of Portugal. Porto is a beautiful and lively city, steeped in history and rich in great experiences. With its magnificent location by the Atlantic coast, Porto is the city of the world famous Port Wine and the River Douro.

The focus is on fundamental research and application areas in the field of the design and application of engineering materials, predominantly within the context of mechanical engineering applications such as automobile, railway, marine, aerospace, biomedical, pressure vessel technology, turbine technology, etc. This includes a wide range of materials engineering and technology, including metals, e.g., lightweight metallic materials, polymers, composites, and ceramics. Advanced applications would include manufacturing in the new or newer materials, testing methods, multi-scale experimental and computational aspects (e.g. micro- and nano-scale techniques).
You have in attachment the programme of MDA 2020 for you to have an idea of the type of themes treated in MDA conferences. It is still possible to participate in MDA 2020 (see registration here).

The scientific committee of MDA 2022 includes Abel Dias dos Santos (University of Porto, Portugal), Alberto Barroso (University of Seville, Spain), Alejandro Ureña (University of Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Alessandro Pirondi (Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy), Alireza Akhavan-Safar (INEGI, Portugal), Alvaro Rodríguez-Prieto (UNED, Spain), Andreas Brunner (EMPA Duebendorf, Switzerland), António Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal), António Torres Marques (University of Porto, Portugal), Bala Vaidhyanathan (Loughborough University, UK), Bohumil Kasal (Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Germany), Chiaki Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Dan Constantinescu (University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania), Daolun Chen (Ryerson University, Canada), Eugenio Dragoni (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), Fátima Vaz (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Filipe Samuel Silva (University of Minho, Portugal), Filippo Berto (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway), Francesco Tornabene (University of Salento, Italy), Frédéric Jacquemin (University of Nantes, France), Jean François Ferrero (Université Toulouse III, France), Jean-François Chatelain (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada), João Paulo Davim (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Jorge Lino Alves (University of Porto, Portugal), José Joaquim Lopes Morais (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal), Juana Abenojar (University of Carlos III, Spain), Klaus Dilger (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany), Łukasz Sadowski (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland), Majid Ayatollahi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran), Manuel Vieira (University of Porto, Portugal), Nicolas Carrere (ENSTA, France), Paulo Martins (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Renato Natal (University of Porto, Portugal), Ricardo Carbas (INEGI, Portugal), Robert Adams (University of Oxford, UK), Salah Mezlini (École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Monastir, Tunisia), Sean Leen (NUI Galway, Ireland), Silvio de Barros (CEFET/RJ, Brazil), Volnei Tita (University of São Paulo, Brazil), WeiDong Li (Dalian University of Technology, China) and Yosi Bar-Cohen (JPL/Caltech, USA).

Authors who wish to make a presentation (oral or poster) are requested to submit a short abstract (one single A4 page possibly with a diagram and references) in English, by 7 July 2022. The abstracts should be sent electronically to lucas@fe.up.pt. The abstract template can be downloaded from the conference web site (www.fe.up.pt/mda2022).

Conference proceedings (CD-ROM) with the accepted abstracts will be available at registration. The CD-ROM will have an ISBN number.
Full papers will be published in special issues of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications (SAGE), Science and Engineering of Composite Materials (DE GRUYTER, no fees involved), U.P. Journal of Engineering (University of Porto) and in a book of the book series Advanced Structured Materials (SPRINGER) (provided they meet the quality standards). The full papers (not compulsory) should be sent to lucas@fe.up.pt before the 7th of July 2022. The text should be in single column format and double line spacing.

Important dates
11 March 2022 Abstract submission deadline
25 March 2022 Notification of acceptance to authors
8 April 2022 Early bird registration

Yours sincerely,

Lucas
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Lucas F M da Silva
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Chairman of AB conferences
Chairman of CLBA conferences
Chairman of IAA conferences
Chairman of AJP conferences
Chairman of MDA conferences
Chairman of STE conferences

Editor in Chief of The Journal of Adhesion (TAYLOR & FRANCIS)
Editor in Chief of Proc. Inst. of Mech. Eng., Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications (SAGE)
Editor in Chief of Journal of Advanced Joining Processes (ELSEVIER)
Editor in Chief of U. Porto Journal of Engineering (UNIVERSITY OF PORTO)

President of the Portuguese Adhesion Society

Director of the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering

Director of Advanced Joining Processes Unit of INEGI

Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec)
Rua Dr Roberto Frias
4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351225081706, email: lucas@fe.up.pt , web: ajpu.pt