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Fusion Bonding/Welding of Metal and Non-Metallic Materials

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 1973

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Jacek Górka

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Welding Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego Street 18A, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Interests: weldability of modern construction materials; metallurgy of welding processes; quality control of welding processes; abrasive and erosive wear processes and the use of nanostructured carbon materials to modify the properties and structure of welds; plasma cutting
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Dear colleagues,

I invite you to prepare scientific publications on broadly understood welding technologies that are used to join advanced construction materials used in materials engineering, as well as joining processes using various types of adhesives. The welding process is still the basic technology for joining conventional and modern construction materials, and it is often supported by other processes, e.g., gluing, resistance welding combined with gluing. The welding process is characterized by many specific features related to the variable temperature field and changes in a wide range of physical and mechanical properties of the welded material. However, in each case, we are dealing with a metallurgical connection. In the case of bonding processes, the quality of the connection is determined by adhesion, diffusion, and the forces acting between individual zones. I invite you to submit scientifically valuable articles to this Special Issue entitled: “Fusion Bonding/Welding of Metal and Non-metallic Materials”. Its scope is vastly wide and covers virtually all welding technologies, from conventional ones through to laser beam and electron beam welding, as well as monitoring, diagnostics, and simulation of these processes. I would also like to see publications in the area of ​​fusion bonding, both regarding the use of metal and non-metal materials. I suggest that the articles concern advanced welding methods, unconventional welding solutions, special bonding methods, and novelties in the field of joining composite materials. Studies on monitoring joining processes, their diagnostics, and computer simulations will also be welcomed. I believe that publishing the results of your research in the Materials journal is worthwhile in order to disseminate your work to a wide audience.

The themes of this Special Issue will provide a forum for articles on the following concepts:

- Welding technologies for joining modern construction materials;
- Fusion Bonding of metal and non-metal materials;
- Innovative methods of combining construction materials;
- Modern additional materials with special functional properties;
- Application of the finite element method to predict joint properties;
- Qualitative assessment of manufacturing processes;
- Diagnostics of welding and fusion bonding processes;
- The use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of welding processes.

Prof. Dr. Jacek Górka
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • welding
  • fusion bonding
  • metal materials
  • non-metallic materials
  • monitoring and diagnostics

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Pulsed Eddy Current Imaging of Partially Missing Solder in Brazing Joints of Stainless Steel Core Plates
by Changchun Zhu, Hanqing Chen, Xuecheng Zhu, Hui Zeng and Zhiyuan Xu
Materials 2024, 17(22), 5561; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17225561 - 14 Nov 2024
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Stainless steel core plates (SSCPs) show great potential for modular construction due to their superiority of excellent mechanical properties, light weight, and low cost over traditional concrete and honeycomb structures. During the brazing process of SSCP joints which connect the skin panel and [...] Read more.
Stainless steel core plates (SSCPs) show great potential for modular construction due to their superiority of excellent mechanical properties, light weight, and low cost over traditional concrete and honeycomb structures. During the brazing process of SSCP joints which connect the skin panel and core tubes, it is difficult to keep an even heat flow of inert gas in the vast furnace, which can lead to partially missing solder defects in brazing joints. Pulsed eddy current imaging (PECI) has demonstrated feasibility for detecting missing solder defects, but various factors including lift-off variation and image blurring can deteriorate the quality of C-scan images, resulting in inaccurate evaluation of the actual state of the brazed joints. In this study, a differential pulsed eddy current testing (PECT) probe is designed to reduce the lift-off noise of PECT signals, and a mask-based image segmentation and thinning method is proposed to eliminate the blurring effect of C-scan images. The structure of the designed probe was optimized based on finite element simulation and the positive peak of the PECT signal was selected as the signal feature. Experiments with the aid of a scanning device are then carried out to image the interrogated regions of the SSCP specimen. The peak values of the signals were collected in a matrix to generate images of the scanned brazing joints. Results show that lift-off noise is significantly reduced by using the differential probe. Image blurring caused by the convolution effect of the probe’s point spread function with the imaging object was eliminated using a mask-based image segmentation and thinning method. The restored C-scan images enhance the sharpness of the profiles of the brazing joints and the opening in the images accurately reflect the missing solder of the brazed joints. Full article
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In Situ Investigation of Tensile Response for Inconel 718 Micro-Architected Materials Fabricated by Selective Laser Melting
by Ioannis Filippos Kyriakidis, Nikolaos Kladovasilakis, Eleftheria Maria Pechlivani, Apostolos Korlos, Constantine David and Konstantinos Tsongas
Materials 2024, 17(17), 4433; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17174433 - 9 Sep 2024
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Topology optimization enables the design of advanced architected materials with tailored mechanical properties and optimal material distribution. This method can result in the production of parts with uniform mechanical properties, reducing anisotropy effects and addressing a critical challenge in metal additive manufacturing (AM). [...] Read more.
Topology optimization enables the design of advanced architected materials with tailored mechanical properties and optimal material distribution. This method can result in the production of parts with uniform mechanical properties, reducing anisotropy effects and addressing a critical challenge in metal additive manufacturing (AM). The current study aims to examine the micro-tensile response of Inconel 718 architected materials utilizing the Selective Laser Melting Technique. In this context, three novel architected materials, i.e., Octet, Schwarz Diamond (SD), and hybrid Schwarz Diamond and Face Centered Cubic (FCC), were tested in three different relative densities. The specimens were then subjected to uniaxial quasi-static tensile tests to determine their key mechanical properties, including elastic modulus, yield strength, and ultimate tensile strength (UTS), as well as the scaling laws describing the tensile response of each architected material. In situ Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has been performed to observe the structure and grain morphology of the 3D printed specimens along with the phase transitions (elastic, plastic), the crack propagation, and the overall failure mechanisms. The results highlight the effect of the lattice type and the relative density on the mechanical properties of architected materials. Topologically optimized structures presented a 70–80% reduction in overall strength, while the SD and SD&FCC structures presented higher stretching dominated behavior, which was also verified by the n-value range (1–2) extracted from the identification of the scaling laws. Full article
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Effects of Building Direction, Process Parameters and Border Scanning on the Mechanical Properties of Laser Powder Bed Fusion AlSi10Mg
by Juan M. García-Zapata, Belén Torres and Joaquín Rams
Materials 2024, 17(15), 3655; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17153655 - 24 Jul 2024
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The variability arising from the LPBF process, the multitude of manufacturing parameters available, and the intrinsic anisotropy of the process, which causes different mechanical properties in distinct building directions, result in a wide range of variables that must be considered when designing industrial [...] Read more.
The variability arising from the LPBF process, the multitude of manufacturing parameters available, and the intrinsic anisotropy of the process, which causes different mechanical properties in distinct building directions, result in a wide range of variables that must be considered when designing industrial parts. To understand the effect of these variables on the LPBF manufacturing process, the performance of the AlSi10Mg alloy produced through this technique has been tested through several mechanical tests, including hardness, tensile, shear, and fracture toughness. The results have been correlated with the microstructure, together with manufacturing parameters, building directions, border scanning strategy, and layer height. Significant differences were observed for each mechanical behavior depending on the configuration tested. As a result, an anisotropic material model has been developed from tested samples, which allows to numerically model the alloy and is unique in the current literature. Full article
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