Phase Transformations in Lightweight Alloys
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 May 2021) | Viewed by 3931
Special Issue Editor
Interests: processing and heat treatment of aluminum and magnesium; metallurgy of welding; electrodeposition; phase transformations in metals and alloys; high temperature corrosion; metallic and ceramic thin films and coatings; nanomaterials; grain boundary engineering; crystallographic texture; semisolid processing of alloys and analytical techniques of materials investigation
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Dear Colleagues,
Phase transformations represent the most effective means of tailoring the microstructure and properties of engineering materials. Being generally defined as “a rearrangement of the atomic structure of the assembly”, phase transformations take place during melting, solidification, deformation, or heat treatment and include, for example, nucleation and growth, recovery and recrystallization, eutectoidal decomposition, precipitation from supersaturated solutions, deformation induced precipitation, deformation twinning, GP zone formation etc. Hence, understanding their fundamentals is critical for materials development, production, and application.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue, which will focus on phase transformations in current and emerging structural metallic materials, critical for weight reduction. In addition to traditional magnesium, aluminium and titanium based alloys the issue will include novel lightweight high-entropy alloys that are also becoming candidates for substantial weight reduction. The scope will cover fundamental research, all aspects of alloy development, synthesis, heat treatment, component manufacturing, computer simulation and application related topics where phase transformations are considered.
Submissions of communications, full papers, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Frank Czerwinski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Magnesium alloys
- Aluminum alloys
- Titanium alloys
- Ligthweight high entropy alloys
- Metal-matrix composites
- Deformation
- Phase transformations
- Heat treatment
- Additive manufacturing
- Modeling and simulation of phase transformations
