Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials

(PFAM VI) Singapore, November 1997 Originally published by the former Institute of Materials, now the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining This two volume compendium contains the papers presented at a conference organised by the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, and jointly sponsored by The Institute of Materials (UK), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (USA) and Advanced Materials Research Center (Singapore). The 152 papers were divided into 32 sessions that included Advanced Metallics, Biomaterials, Ceramics, Ceramic-Matrix Composites, Functionally Graded Materials, Intermetallics, Metal-Matrix Composites, Polymers and Composites, Powder Injection Molding and Surface and Coating Technology.