Advanced Metal Forming Technologies – Advanced Experiment and Integrated Computational Design

A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".

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Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: Mg, Al, Ti, high-entropy and amorphous structural alloy; thermodynamic/kinetic computation; CALPHAD; plastical deformation theory; molecular dynamic simulations; high-throughput experiment and calculation
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: Ti alloy; phase field modeling; microstructure simulation

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State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: lightweight alloy integrated design and manufacturing

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Institute of Engineering Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083 China
Interests: Mg, Al, Ti alloy and steel; manufacturing technology

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The State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: Mg alloy; materials strengthening; plasticity; manufacturing technology

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Interests: Mg alloys; severe plastic deformation; microstructure; texture; advanced experimental characterization
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College of Engineering; Zhejiang University City College Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310015, China
Interests: Al alloy; finite element analysis theory; continuum plasticity modeling; integrated computational materials engineering; manufacturing technology

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: lightweight metal and alloy; casting, wrought and manufacturing technology; CALPHAD; microstructure simulation; finite element analysis; integrated computational materials engineering
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Dear Colleagues,

Advanced lightweight structural metals, including aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg) and titanium (Ti) alloys, are increasingly being used in the automotive and aerospace for weight reduction and for the increased demand of fuel economy. Developing innovative manufacturing processes increase the component performance and decrease the processing cost. Sheet metal forming technologies such as stamping, flanging, bending, hemming and trimming have been well established at room temperature (RT). Unfortunately, the poor RT formability of these lightweight metals, compared to steels, limits their high-volume and high-performance application.

Based on the advanced forming technologies, computational theory and numerical simulation, considerable efforts and significant progress, fundamentally and technologically, have been made on the wrought Al, Mg and Ti alloys. The present Special Issue on “Advanced Metal Forming Technologies - advanced experiment and integrated computational design” may shed light on bulk metallic genome “Crystal” corresponding to inter/intra-granular plastic deformation mechanisms such as slip, twinning, grain boundary sliding, grain size, recovery, recrystallization, texture, and yield asymmetry via experimentally metallurgical strategies (alloying and thermomechanical processing) and multi-scale modelings including thermodynamic/kinetic calculation, first principle calculation, molecular dynamic simulations, multi-phase field model, crystal plasticity model, continuum plasticity model, and finite element model. Thus, we invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue focusing on the alloying–processing–microstructure–property relationship of lightweight metals via the advanced experimental characterization, novel metal forming technologies and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) modelings.

Prof. Dr. Renhai Shi
Prof. Dr. Rongpei Shi
Prof. Dr. Dejiang Li
Prof. Dr. Haitao Jiang
Prof. Dr. Xiaoqin Zeng
Prof. Dr. Mingyi Zheng
Prof. Dr. Xuming Su
Prof. Dr. Alan Luo
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Keywords

  • bulk metallic genome “Crystal”
  • lightweight metals and alloys
  • plastic deformation mechanism
  • recovery, recrystallization and texture
  • mechanical properties
  • manufacturing and forming process
  • integrated computational materials engineering (ICME)
  • advanced experimental characterization

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Interatomic Potential to Predict the Favored Glass-Formation Compositions and Local Atomic Arrangements of Ternary Al-Ni-Ti Metallic Glasses
by Qilin Yang, Jiahao Li, Wensheng Lai, Jianbo Liu and Baixin Liu
Crystals 2022, 12(8), 1065; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12081065 - 29 Jul 2022
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An empirical potential under the formalism of second-moment approximation of tight-binding potential is constructed for an Al-Ni-Ti ternary system and proven reliable in reproducing the physical properties of pure elements and their various compounds. Based on the constructed potential, molecular dynamic simulations are [...] Read more.
An empirical potential under the formalism of second-moment approximation of tight-binding potential is constructed for an Al-Ni-Ti ternary system and proven reliable in reproducing the physical properties of pure elements and their various compounds. Based on the constructed potential, molecular dynamic simulations are employed to study metallic glass formations and their local atomic arrangements. First, a glass-formation range is determined by comparing the stability of solid solutions and their corresponding counterparts, reflecting the possible composition region energetically favored for the formation of amorphous phases. Second, a favored glass-formation composition subregion around Al0.05Ni0.35Ti0.60 is determined by calculating the amorphous driving forces from crystalline-to-amorphous transition. Moreover, various structural analysis methods are used to characterize the local atomic arrangements of Al0.05NixTi0.95-x metallic glasses. We find that the amorphous driving force is positively correlated with glass-formation ability. It is worth noting that the addition of Ni significantly increases the amorphous driving force configurations of fivefold symmetry and structural disorder in Al0.05NixTi0.95-x metallic glasses until the content of Ni reaches approximately 35 at%. Full article
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