Heat Treatment of Metallic Materials in Modern Industry
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Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology, 91724 Trnava, Slovakia
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Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 6, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic
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Materials 2022, 15(23), 8337; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15238337
Submission received: 20 November 2022
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Accepted: 21 November 2022
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Published: 23 November 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat Treatment of Metallic Materials in Modern Industry)
The Heat Treatment of Metallic Materials in Modern Industry is a Special Issue of the journal Materials, which aims to publish original full-length articles and review papers on basic and applied research centered around the given topic, and thereby make the understanding of the metallurgical background of the contemporary state of heat treatment techniques used in the industrial branches in the 21st century.
Metals are still the most widely used materials in various branches of modern industry. In automotive industries, for instance, metallic materials make of around 75% of total weight of the middle-class vehicles such as Ford Mondeo, Audi A6, or Škoda Superb 3rd generation. For the proper functionality of components made of metallic materials, they must be subjected to different heat, thermo-chemical, or surface treatments. For these purposes, various types of equipment such as industrial furnaces, inductors, laser generators, electron beam, physical vapor deposition devices, 3D printers, and others have been used. Thermal- or thermo-chemical treatments evoke changes in bulk- or superficial microstructures of metals and thereby modify their properties. Changes in both the microstructures and properties of metallic materials should be carefully controlled. Different techniques and devices (such as light, electron, or confocal microscopes; hardness testers; and machines for the testing of wear and mechanical properties) are utilized in order to evaluate these alterations.
The papers which explore the research and development works on bulk heat and cryogenic treatment of steel, aluminium, titanium, magnesium, or copper alloys are particularly welcome. However, thermo-chemical treatments such as low-pressure carburizing, nitriding (including plasma processes), boronizing, and complementary techniques are also explored within this Special Issue. Finally, the papers on laser- or electron-beam surface treatments as well as the physical vapor deposition of thin films are of interest to the Editors of this Special Issue.
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Short Biography of Authors
Peter Jurči is a professor in the Department of Materials Science at the Faculty of Materials and Technology in Trnava, the Slovak University of Technology. Peter Jurči was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Materials and Technology in Trnava in 1997, and became a professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2010. Over the last fifteen years, he has worked on the boronizing and physical vapor deposition of self-lubrication thin films, and has dedicated extensive efforts to the investigation of the metallurgical background of microstructural changes in cold work tool steels due to cryogenic treatments and their impact on mechanical properties and tribological performance. To date, he has published around 100 peer-reviewed articles and more than 250 conference papers.
Pavel Novák is a professor in the Department of Metals and Corrosion Engineering of University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. Pavel Novák was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Metallurgy at the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, in 2006, and became a professor in Metallurgy at the same university in 2022. His scientific interests include high-temperature and hard materials based on intermetallics, the production of tool steels and other tool materials by powder metallurgy, and their heat treatment. To date, he has published around 175 WOS-indexed papers and more than 260 publications in total.
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