Low Temperature Treatment of Stainless Steel
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 5581
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Interests: surface engineering; plasma nitriding; plasma carburizing; expanded austenite; expanded ferrite; expanded martensite
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Dear Colleagues,
Stainless steels are an important class of iron-based alloys which are employed in different industrial fields owing to their very good corrosion resistance in many environments. The performance of stainless steel components can be further improved upon by means of surface engineering techniques. Low temperature treatments are known as an effective mean of surface modification of stainless steels and they have been applied to all the classes of these alloys. By using environments containing nitrogen and/or carbon at temperatures able to inhibit the formation of chromium compounds, the increase in surface hardness, and thus in wear and fatigue resistance, can be obtained, maintaining or even increasing corrosion resistance. With these treatments, metastable phases, known as expanded austenite or S phase and expanded martensite, form, and their peculiar characteristics have been the subject of much research over recent years.
This Special Issue aims to stimulate researchers worldwide to share their studies on the various aspects of low temperature treatments of stainless steels, from the employed treatment processes to the models of the formation of modified layers, the characteristics of metastable phases and the changes in the surface properties of different classes of stainless steels. For this purpose, original research articles, review articles and significant preliminary communications are invited.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Low temperature treatment processes;
- Kinetics and models regarding the formation of the modified layers;
- Characteristics of the modified layers;
- Expanded austenite – S phase;
- Expanded martensite;
- Corrosion resistance;
- Wear resistance;
- Fatigue resistance;
- Magnetic and electric properties;
- Wetting behavior;
- Biocompatibility.
Prof. Dr. Francesca Borgioli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Stainless steels
- Low temperature treatments
- Surface modification
- Expanded austenite
- S phase
- Expanded martensite
- Corrosion resistance
- Wear resistance
- Fatigue resistance
- Magnetic properties
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