Advanced Welding and Soldering Technologies for Metals and Alloys

Dear Colleagues，

We invite you to publish in the new Special Issue "Advanced Welding and Soldering Technologies for Metals and Alloys", which we hope will meet your expectations. The subject of this Special Issue oscillates around welding and soldering. Despite the development of relevant technologies, these are still some of the most common techniques for the permanent joining of metals and alloys. That is why they are constantly being developed, and we want to give you the opportunity to participate in this process. The thematic diversity of this Special Issue means that it is dedicated to a wide group of scientists who deal with the issues of welding and soldering. In the case of the welding process, the subject of the work will be oriented to all welding methods (MMA, MIG/MAG, GTAW, SAW, PAW, LBW, EBW, and others) and thermal processes occurring during welding, as well as welding metallurgy in terms of the analysis of processes occurring in the liquid weld pool metal. The thematic area of this work also includes innovative research on joining difficult-to-weld materials and compiled welded structures, in particular thin-walled welded structures. The use of numerical and computer simulation of the welding process, for example in the aspect of analyzing temperature or stress distribution in the area of the welded joint, are topics covered by this work. The work will present new solutions in the field of soldering methods concerning fillers and fluxes used to produce unconventional soldered joints from various materials. We encourage you to publish research on the broadly understood minimization of defects in welded and soldered joints using innovative technological, material, and construction solutions. “Advanced Welding and Soldering Technologies for Metals and Alloys” is a collection of original publications highlighting innovations in welding and soldering technology.

Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Research on the influence of technological parameters of the welding process on the microstructure and functional properties of welded joints.
• Research on the influence of the thermal cycle of the welding process on the quality of welded joints.
• Analysis of metallurgical processes occurring during welding (oxidation and reduction, gas evolution, crystallization of the liquid metal pool, non-metallic inclusions and crack formation, and others).
• Analysis of the distribution of welding stresses and welding deformations due to the quality of welded joints, and methods of minimizing welding deformations.
• Influence of structural, technological and metallurgical conditions on the weldability of metals and alloys.
• Numerical and computer simulation of welding processes in terms of temperature distribution in the area of the welded joint, distribution of welding stresses, and others.
• Research on the influence of technological parameters of the soldering process on the quality of soldered joints.
• Analysis of physical and chemical processes occurring during soldering.
• Development trends of fillers and fluxes intended for soldering.
• The use of soldering techniques in unconventional material and construction solutions.

Dr. Marek Mróz
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• welding methods
• hybrid welding
• welding metallurgy
• welding stress and deformation
• weldability
• numerical and computer simulation
• soldering methods
• physical and chemical basics of soldering
• fillers and fluxes for soldering