Processing and Mechanical Behavior in Lightweight Metallic Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 5961
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal additive manufacturing; multi-scale materials characterization; corrosion; mechanical properties
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Dear Colleagues,
With the goal of reducing gas consumption and, subsequently, achieving lower greenhouse gas emissions, the use of lightweight metallic materials has been growing drastically in many industries, including the automotive, aerospace, marine, energy, chemical processing, and medical industries. This has resulted in substantial attention being given by both the research communities and industry toward innovative processing routes for the manufacturing of lightweight metallic alloys and their inherent properties and performance. The accelerated adoption of such lightweight metallic systems for structural applications demands an in-depth understanding of the impact of processing routes on the resultant properties of the fabricated components, among which the mechanical properties are highly crucial from the perspective of performance.
This Special Issue aims to disseminate the recent innovations pertinent to the processing of lightweight metallic alloys. In particular, various manufacturing processes, i.e., additive manufacturing, casting, forming, and welding and joining, along with post-fabrication processing techniques such as surface modifications and coatings, thermal treatments, and thermomechanical processing are considered. Of particular interest to this Special Issue are original and rigorous articles that target microstructure–mechanical properties–performance correlations in lightweight metallic materials, including aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, and titanium alloys, among others.
Prof. Ali M. Nasiri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lightweight metals
- manufacturing processes
- additive manufacturing
- casting
- forming
- welding
- post-fabrication processing
- surface treatments
- mechanical properties
- microstructure
- performance
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