Editorial Advisory Board:

S. Asai, Japan Science and Technology(JST)Agency, Innovation Plaza, Tokai, Nagoya, Japan

I. Bakonyi, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

O. A. Bannykh, Institute of Metallurgy "A. A. Baikov", Moscow, Russia

K. Dilger, Institut fűr Fűge- und Schweißtechnik, Technische Universitāt Braunschweig, Germany

A. T. Dumitrescu, University "Valahia", Faculty of Materials Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics, Targoviste, Romania.

D. Francois, École Centrale Paris, Laboratoire de Méchanique, France

U. Kamachi Mudali, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India

J. F. Knott, Department of Metallurgy and Materials, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

D. Munz, Institut fűr Zuverlāssigkeit und Schadenskunde im Maschinenbau der Universitāt Karlsruhe, Germany

A. Neimitz, Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland

P. R. Sahm, Foundry Institute, RWTH,Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

J. Sietsma, Department Materials Science and Engeneering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

P. Švec, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

V. T. Troshenko, G. S. Pisarenko Institute for Problems of Strength National Ac. Sci. of Ukraine, Kyev, Ukraine.

S. Zatulovsky, Physico-Technological Institute of Metals and Alloys, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine