Progress in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials: Selected Contributions of ICAMM 2025 (Springer Proceedings in Materials, 96)

This book showcases recent developments in advanced manufacturing and materials, with a focus on emerging technologies and innovative processes. It covers topics such as sensors, machine vision systems, collaborative technologies, industrial robotics, digital twins, and virtual and mixed reality, alongside smart materials, sustainable manufacturing, and additive manufacturing. Featuring both theoretical and experimental contributions on engineering design, simulation, and machining processes, the book is based on the 9th International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing and Materials (ICAMM 2025), held in Oxford, United Kingdom, and serves as a timely reference for researchers and professionals in the field.

Dr. Yuyuan Zhao is a Professor at Ningbo University of Technology. He earned his BEng and MSc from Dalian University of Technology, China, and his DPhil in Materials from Oxford University. His academic career includes positions at Dalian University of Technology, CNRS in France, Birmingham University and Liverpool University. He joined Liverpool in 1998, progressing from Lecturer to Professor, and moved to Ningbo University of Technology in 2023. Dr. Zhao pioneered the Sintering and Dissolution Process (SDP) and later invented the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) method for manufacturing porous metals, which led to the founding of Versarien, a successful start-up producing micro-porous copper for thermal management. His contributions to powder metallurgy earned him the Ivor Jenkins Medal (2015), and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). His current research focuses on porous metals and metal matrix syntactic foams.