Mechanical and Microstructural Behaviour of Heterogeneous Metallic Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 18322
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superplasticity; grain refinement; additive manufacturing; nanocrystallization; microstructural heterogeneity
Interests: plastic deformation behavior of metals; mainly at high temperature; ultrafine structures and nano-grained metallic materials; severe plastic deformation processes; equal-channel angular pressing and mechanical alloying
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Interests: metallurgy; recrystallization; crystallography; textures; synchrotron radiation and neutron diffraction characterization; electron backscatter diffraction; X-ray diffraction
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Interests: heterostructured materials; strengthening mechanisms; biomaterials; nanomaterials; metallurgy
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Dear Colleagues,
Throughout human history, several materials, such as polymers, ceramics, and metals, have been developed to fulfill society's demands. Currently, new structural applications require functional materials with hybrid properties, such as strength and ductility. In this sense, metallic materials are a versatile option due to their wide range of mechanical and physical properties. However, homogeneous metallic materials with coarse or ultrafine/nanometric grain sizes can present large ductility or high strength, but not both simultaneously. Thus, the metallic materials’ strength–ductility paradox has been in the spotlight of the research community for at least thirty years, especially with the discovery of nanostructured materials. However, during the last ten years, huge signs of progress have been made to reach the end of this paradox. The so-called “Heterogeneous Metallic Materials” are mainly responsible for these findings; they are made up of grain families with more than a two-order-of-magnitude size difference, giving rise to zones of high strength and large ductility inside the microstructure. In these heterogeneous microstructures, the interphases between the zones of coarse and nanometric grains play a crucial role in generating new strengthening mechanisms that today represent new research opportunities.
Therefore, the proper manufacturing of heterogenous metallic materials requires the knowledge of new processing techniques and routes together with the optimum parameters that lead to a positive strength–ductility synergy. These routes can be associated with, but not limited to, severe plastic deformation plus heat treatments or the new disruptive technologies from additive manufacturing. Furthermore, understanding the behavior of heterogeneous metallic materials is essential to analyze the microstructural and mechanical variations across the interphases of the hard and soft zones where a heterogeneous deformation state occurs. Therefore, this issue invites the material science community to submit research papers dealing with the fundamentals, design, simulation, and characterization of heterogeneous metallic materials using innovative processing routes that help to understand the strengthening mechanism of these particular materials.
Prof. Jairo Alberto Muñoz
Prof. Dr. Jose Maria Cabrera
Prof. Dr. Raúl Eduardo Bolmaro
Dr. Liliana Romero Reséndiz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heterogeneous metallic materials
- hetero-deformation
- Geometrically Necessary Dislocations (GNDs)
- plastic gradients
- strengthening mechanisms
- strength–ductility ratio, additive manufacturing
- plastic deformation
- plasticity
- severe plastic deformation.
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