Advanced Metal Forming Technologies – Advanced Experiment and Integrated Computational Design

Dear Colleagues,

Advanced lightweight structural metals, including aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg) and titanium (Ti) alloys, are increasingly being used in the automotive and aerospace for weight reduction and for the increased demand of fuel economy. Developing innovative manufacturing processes increase the component performance and decrease the processing cost. Sheet metal forming technologies such as stamping, flanging, bending, hemming and trimming have been well established at room temperature (RT). Unfortunately, the poor RT formability of these lightweight metals, compared to steels, limits their high-volume and high-performance application.

Based on the advanced forming technologies, computational theory and numerical simulation, considerable efforts and significant progress, fundamentally and technologically, have been made on the wrought Al, Mg and Ti alloys. The present Special Issue on “Advanced Metal Forming Technologies - advanced experiment and integrated computational design” may shed light on bulk metallic genome “Crystal” corresponding to inter/intra-granular plastic deformation mechanisms such as slip, twinning, grain boundary sliding, grain size, recovery, recrystallization, texture, and yield asymmetry via experimentally metallurgical strategies (alloying and thermomechanical processing) and multi-scale modelings including thermodynamic/kinetic calculation, first principle calculation, molecular dynamic simulations, multi-phase field model, crystal plasticity model, continuum plasticity model, and finite element model. Thus, we invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue focusing on the alloying–processing–microstructure–property relationship of lightweight metals via the advanced experimental characterization, novel metal forming technologies and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) modelings.

Prof. Dr. Renhai Shi
Prof. Dr. Rongpei Shi
Prof. Dr. Dejiang Li
Prof. Dr. Haitao Jiang
Prof. Dr. Xiaoqin Zeng
Prof. Dr. Mingyi Zheng
Prof. Dr. Xuming Su
Prof. Dr. Alan Luo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crystals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• bulk metallic genome “Crystal”
• lightweight metals and alloys
• plastic deformation mechanism
• recovery, recrystallization and texture
• mechanical properties
• manufacturing and forming process
• integrated computational materials engineering (ICME)
• advanced experimental characterization