Forming and Heat Treatment of Steel
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 January 2023) | Viewed by 12088
Special Issue Editor
Interests: production engineering; metal forming; formability; advanced high-strength steel; steel sheet; hot stamping; aluminum alloy sheets; forgings
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Dear Colleagues,
Although steel is cheap in price, it is not cheap in quality, and it is used widely due to its flexible performance in strength, formability, and function via structure control using plastic deformation or heat treatment. In automobiles, the shift to EVs is rapid, and it is essential to reduce the weight of vehicles without impairing their safety due to the requirement of additional batteries. Multimaterial construction is an attractive potential solution to the issue of weight reduction; however, steel is still considered the most appropriate and useful type of material. The development of ultrahigh-strength steel sheets is thus being accelerated and leading to a continuous improvement of their strength and formability. The tensile strength of ultrahigh-strength steel sheets for cold stamping has reached 1450 MPa. Hot stamping through combined press forming and heat treatment quenching not only improves strength but also reduces springback. Moreover, it is becoming standard practice to produce ultrahigh-strength components, with steel being used not only for structural but also for functional parts. For example, electrical motors require a magnetic core, and magnetic steel sheets can enhance their magnetic characteristics via rolling and heat treatment.
In this Special Issue, research related to steel, such as forming, heat treatment, and thermomechanical processing, is invited.
Prof. Dr. Tomoyoshi Maeno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- steel
- alloy steel
- high-strength steel
- sheet
- tube
- metal-forming processes
- manufacturing
- thermomechanical processing
- rolling
- microstructure