Structural Phenomena in Modern Metallic Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3028
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermo-mechanical treatment; non-ferrous metals; structure and stress analyses; numerical methods
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Dear Colleagues and Researchers,
The ever-increasing requirements of industry and commerce on the performance and longevity of components produced from metallic materials have encouraged the research and development of innovative engineering materials based on iron/steel, and other nonferrous metals. The properties of modern materials and alloys ensue from their structures, which can primarily be affected by their chemical composition and the distribution of the individual elements/phases, as well as by applied preparation/production technologies.
A favourable way to effectively enhance the properties of metallic materials is grain refinement. However, other structural phenomena, such as substructure development, volumes and types of grains boundaries, texture formation, as well as the possible occurrence of residual stress and mutual diffusion of the individual phases non-negligibly affect the final mechanical and utility properties, too.
Nonconventional forming technologies, such as severe plastic deformation (SPD) processes, conventional forming processes in combination with thermomechanical treatments, and optimized heat treatments all represent advantageous means to modify the structures of metallic materials in order to significantly improve their performance. Especially, the application of optimized modern forming technologies on alloys and compounds featuring innovative chemical compositions can lead to exceptional structure characteristics providing the final material with superior performance.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your scientific manuscripts to the presented Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Lenka Kunčická
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- (sub)structure characterization
- residual stress
- texture
- grains and boundaries
- precipitation
- dislocations
- lattice parameters
- structure phases
- diffusion
