Advanced Manufacturing from Macro- to Nanoscale: Impact and Shock Loading

Trends and developments in advanced manufacturing from macro- to nanoscale, mainly associated with nanotechnology, precision/ultraprecision manufacturing and advanced materials under low/high speed impact and shock loading, with industrial applications to net-shape manufacturing, biomedical engineering, energy and transport, an outcome of the very extensive work over 40 years on these fields performed by the author and his research international team, are briefly outlined in the present Plenary Lecture of the 5th ESHP 2016 Symposium.