This book offers selected contributions to fundamental research and application in designing and engineering materials. It focuses on mechanical engineering applications such as automobile, railway, marine, aerospace, biomedical, pressure vessel technology, and turbine technology. This includes a wide range of material classes, like lightweight metallic materials, polymers, composites, and ceramics. Advanced applications include manufacturing using the new or newer materials, testing methods, and multi-scale experimental and computational aspects.

Part 1: Metals.- Chapter 1. Mechanical Testing of Extruded Magnesium for the Development of Automobile Seat Frame Structures.- Chapter 2. Failure Modes of Anodized Automotive Aluminium Alloys: A Review.- Chaapter 3. Virtual Crack Closure as a Method for Calculating Stress Intensity Factor of Cracks in Metallic Specimens.- Chapter 4. Multi-scale Modeling for Residual Stresses Analysis of a Cast Super Duplex Stainless Steel.- Part 2: Composites.- Chapter 5. Phono Absorbent Behavior of New Fiberglass Plates from Mixed Plastic Material Wastes.- Chapter 6. Methodology to Simulate Veneer Based Structural Components for Static and Crash Load Cases.- Chapter 7. Numerical Simulation of Impact Behaviour of Multi-cell Thin-walled Structures with Configurable Thermal Trigger Design.- Chapter 8. Stiffness and Damping Properties of a Composite Beam Design.- Part 3: Additive Manufacturing .- Chapter 9. Combining Structural Optimization Solutions Using FFF Manufacturing.- Chapter 10. Machinability Study of Polymeric Parts Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing under a Dry Milling Process.- Chapter 11. Mechanical Characterization of Multi-material 3D Printed Specimens.