Comprehensive Materials Processing (MPRO) provides students and professionals with a one-stop resource consolidating and enhancing the literature of the materials processing and manufacturing universe. It provides authoritative analysis of all processes, technologies and techniques which convert industrial materials from a raw material state into finished parts or products. Aiming to assist scientists and engineers in the selection, design and usage of materials, whether required in the lab or in action across industry, itmatches the adaptive complexity of emergent materials and processing technologies. Extensive traditional article-level academic discussion of core theories and applications are supplemented by applied case studies and highly advanced multimedia features. Coverage encompasses the general categories of solidification, powder, deposition and deformation processing, and will include discussion on plant and tool design, analysis and characterization of processing techniques, high-temperatures studies, and the influence of process scale on component characteristics and behaviour.Authored and reviewed by world-class academic and industrial specialists in each subject field, so readers can be assured of the authoritative, global, comprehensive perspectives on offer.Advanced pedagogy features materials processing in action stretching from the basics of the field to emergent materials, with integrated case studies, user-defined process schemata and multimedia modelling and functionality, promoting research efficiency and improves results through case studies of the leading technologies as they are used in 'real life'.Draws together numerous disparate areas of research into one synthetic reference work with authoritative references to the literature, maximizing research efficiency by collating the most important and established information in one place with integrated applets linking to relevant outside sources