Metal materials:
Metal experiments and theoretical research
Metal smelting, preparation and processing, protection
Special metal functional materials
High end metal structural materials
High performance metal matrix composite materials
Frontier metal new materials
New high-strength, long-life, microalloyed, and low-cost metal materials
Metal material testing technology and methods
Advanced solidification and controlled forming technology
Analysis of Application Fields of New Biomedical Metal Materials
Analysis of Mechanical Behavior of Metal Materials
Application and Preparation Technology of Metal Porous Materials
Surface and interface of metal materials
Refractory metals, hard alloys, precious metals
Microstructure and properties of metal structural materials
Metal laser additive manufacturing
Deformation and Phase Transformation of Metal Materials
Metallurgy:
Steel metallurgy
Nonferrous metal metallurgy
Powder metallurgy
Rare earth metallurgy
Precious metal metallurgy
Metal Physics and Chemistry
Material processing engineering
Material Forming and Control Engineering
Surface engineering 
Corrosion and Protection
Metallurgical Equipment and Automation
Metallurgical analysis and testing, etc
Modeling and Simulation:
Modeling and Identification
Modeling and Control Theory
Modeling of non functional properties of systems
Real time simulator, instrument and control
System modeling and simulation technology
Design of Universal Modeling Language and Related Standards
Model driven engineering, modeling language, meta modeling, model transformation, model evolution
Formal modeling, validation and validation, analysis, testing
Ontology based modeling
Model manipulation
Simulation modeling theory and technology
Distributed simulation
Simulation optimization
Numerical method 
Mathematical modeling 
Agent based modeling
Dynamic modeling
Continuous and discrete methods
Time series analysis