Special Issue "Advanced High-Strength Bainite Steels"
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 806
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ausforming and transformation kinetics in advanced high-strength bainite steels; microstructure and property control of ultra-high strength steels
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced high-strength bainite steels have attracted extensive attention for decades due to their excellent combination of strength and toughness. The strength and hardness are sensitive to the morphology, volume fraction and dimension of bainite, while the ductility and toughness are essentially determined by the morphology, volume fraction and stability of the retained austenite. Many efforts have been made to improve the mechanical properties and performance of advanced high-strength bainite steels, via optimizing alloying elements, novel heat treatment processing, ausforming, etc. Low-temperature transformation is normally adopted to fabricate advanced high-strength bainite steels, thus leading to slow transformation kinetics, especially for high-carbon and high-alloy cases, which represents a barrier for industrial application.
Technological research is still needed for the implementation of advanced high-strength bainite steels, especially considering the compromise proposal of high performance and production cycle. Fundamental studies on transformation kinetics, crystallography, ausforming and mechanical properties will guide the development of advanced high-strength bainite steels.
Topics addressed in this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to: novel heat treatment processes, novel microstructures, new methods to accelerate transformation processes, mechanical performance, and fatigue behavior.
Dr. Haijiang Hu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bainite steel
- nanobainite
- retained austenite
- transformation kinetics
- crystallography
- ausforming
- heat treatment
- high-strength
- microstructural characterization
- mechanical performance
