Advances in Novel Welding Process of Metal Matrix Composites
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 879
Special Issue Editors
Interests: welding; additive manufacturing; metallurgy; micromechanical modelling; crystal plasticity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the improvement of the new generation of equipment technology, the requirements for the performance of materials are becoming more and more stringent. Metal matrix composites (MMCs) not only have the characteristics of being lightweight and strong, but also have a series of advantages such as good fatigue resistance, creep resistance, heat resistance, wear resistance, high thermal conductivity, low thermal expansion, vibration reduction, and dimensional stability, which have become important areas of research and development of new materials. MMCs have been used in aerospace, automotive, and other manufacturing industries due to their excellent comprehensive properties. The huge difference in the properties of the reinforcements and the matrix alloys produces great difficulties in the welding of MMCs. Metal inert gas welding, gas tungsten arc welding, laser welding, electron beam welding, vacuum brazing, ultrasound-assisted brazing, transient liquid phase bonding, or resistance spot welding are the most popular joining procedures for MMCs. MMCs have recently been joined using a variety of solid-state joining processes, such as friction stir welding.
The goal of this Special Issue is to cover a wide range of subjects related to MMC welding techniques. It will also cover the current state of the art in a wide range of MMC-related fields. The following are some of the themes of interest; however, it is not an exhaustive list:
- Developments of welding and joining processes of MMCs;
- Mechanism of microstructural evolution;
- Modelling and simulation of welding and joining processes;
- Heat source–material interaction mechanism.
We would like to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews related to any of the topics mentioned above.
Dr. Shengli Li
Dr. Chunyang Xia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal matrix composites
- welding and joining processes
- solid state techniques
- heat source
- microstructural evolution
- modelling and simulation
