Surface Integrity in Metals Machining

Dear colleagues,

With the increasing requirement of component quality in industry applications, surface integrity has become an essential aspect for the machined workpiece working in harsh environments, especially for those applied in safety critical areas (e.g., aerospace, nuclear, medical). Thus, the investigation of surface characteristics after machining has become of high importance and attracted growing attention from both academic and industrial researchers. However, due to the complex machining process, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of machined surface integrity and its formation mechanism, which has significantly limited the investigation of component service and functional performances. Considering the diversity of materials and machining methods, e.g., conventional and nonconventional machining, this Special Issue will focus on surface integrity in metal machining, aiming to make a fundamental contribution to exploring metal surface generation, as well as component functional performances.

In this Special Issue, we are particularly interested in (but not limited to) studies on topics such as:

• Special mechanism in metal machining and deformation;
• Surface and subsurface generation;
• Material removal principle of non-conventional machining processes;
• Surface and subsurface properties after machining (e.g., microstructure alternations, chemical variation, mechanical properties changing);
• Surface integrity improvement and modification strategy;
• Novel and advanced metal machining methods;
• New surface integrity predication methods;
• Influence of surface integrity on component functional performance;
• Advanced surface integrity characterization methods;
• Relationships of structure–process–surface integrity–performance.

Dr. Dongdong Xu
Prof. Dr. Bing Wang
Prof. Dr. Jinming Zhou
Guest Editors

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• surface integrity
• metal cutting
• machining
• non-conventional machining
• surface generation
• materials deformation
• functional performance