Progress in Metallic Tools

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue purpose is to present your latest unpublished results on Metallic Tools from a theoretical or practical perspective, as well as to highlight expected tendencies and long-term trends in this field.

Metallic Tools have an irreplaceable role in human history. Technological advances in this area have been many times an accelerator of the significant rise of cultures and countries able to create innovative leaps through Metallic Tools and exploit them for a significant competitive advantage.

Nowadays, Metallic Tools is one of the most crucial catalysts, especially in the field of efficient production. Their role is to ensure quality manufacturing at an acceptable cost level, the versatility of application, low environmental impact, safe operation, and high recyclability. Metallic tools require the application of appropriate skills and processes from a very wide range of existing possibilities in accordance with the nature of the processed material; they are used in range from prototype manufacturing to mass production; and for production from very small parts to large products.

The above-mentioned characteristics of Metallic Tools document that this is a very complex and extensive topic and at the same time a very important area of research. A summary of the latest knowledge in this area deserves a monothematic special edition with a structure mapping the current state of the Metallic Tolls through the presentation of the work of leading experts and institutions and identified directions for future development.

This special issue is being prepared due to the rapid developments in Metallic Tools and the closely related professional areas in recent decades.

Don't miss this unique opportunity and join Progress in Metallic Tools special issue of journal Metals with your significant work!

The special issue focuses on aspects of Metallic Tools professional area. General topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Advanced tools
• Novel tool design
• Tool materials progress
• Tool coatings progress
• Tools working condition
• The novelty in tools wearing & damage research
• Tools for special materials processing
• Tools performance & efficiency
• Tools sustainability

Prof. Dr. Peter Pavol Monka
Guest Editor

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• Metallic tools
• Metallic tool material
• Metallic tool treatment
• Metallic tools productivity
• Metallic tools special applications
• Metallic tools working properties