Preface

Abstract

Conference COMAT deals with recent trends in structural materials that cover production technologies (casting, forging, rolling, additive manufacturing...), heat and thermo-mechanical treatments, computer modelling and physical simulations and materials characterisation. COMAT started in 2010. Therefore, we celebrated already 12th anniversary of the conference the last year. The event was organized by traditional tandem COMTES FHT Inc. and TANGER Ltd. We had high expectations for this meeting after two years of COVID restrictions. Unfortunately, many of them remained valid till the conference took place and we had very narrow range of foreigner participants and rather low number of participants in comparison with the previous years. Lower number of participants lead to single session conference, which in turn resulted in very friendly and constrictive atmosphere, when all sessions had much more audience and discussions, than it was in the previous years, when parallel sessions systems was implemented. For COMAT 2022 we agreed for the first time on selected paper publication in Materials journal, leading to smaller amount of papers to be found in these proceedings, but we still hope the readers will find these proceedings interesting and inspiring. These articles were reviewed by 20 experts.We are looking forward to seeing you all personally at COMAT 2024.