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Metals, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2020 - 139 articles

Cover Story: A new methodology has been developed to manufacture high-quality Al/AlN composite powders from inexpensive aluminum powders using laser technology. Al/AlN composite powders have been synthesized by spraying aluminum powder through a HPD Laser beam in a nitrogen-rich environment. The high temperature induced by the laser beam activates the in-situ nitridation of the outer zone of the particles through different nitridation mechanisms. This treatment has been evaluated in different aluminum alloy powders and the obtained product consists of an aluminum matrix reinforced with nano-sized AlN particles. By analyzing the AlN atomic structure obtained, a correlation between the temperature distribution of the particles, their composition, and the nitridation reaction mechanisms was established. Finally, composite coatings have been fabricated by reactive direct laser deposition using these powders and its effect on the reinforcement was evaluated by microhardness and nanoindentation.
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Articles (139)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,600 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2020

Aerospace thin-walled rings are vulnerable to machining distortion during the manufacturing process. Various research results show that the main factor causing machining deformation is initial residual stress inside the blank. In this study, the resi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,065 Views
14 Pages

20 July 2020

This paper considers the applicability of virtual crack closure technique (VCCT) for calculation of stress intensity factor range for crack propagation in standard metal specimen geometries with sharp through thickness cracks. To determine crack prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,000 Views
11 Pages

Ultrasonic Assisted Sintering Using Heat Converted from Mechanical Energy

  • Zhiyuan Liu,
  • Yang Ge,
  • Dandan Zhao,
  • Yan Lou,
  • Yong Liu,
  • Yuan Wu,
  • Peng Yu and
  • Chunyan Yu

18 July 2020

A new sintering method, namely ultrasonic assisted sintering (UAS), has been proposed using mechanical heat converted from high frequency motion between particles. Pure aluminum specimens with diameter of 5 mm and thickness of ~2 mm have been success...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
189 Citations
30,537 Views
11 Pages

18 July 2020

The Swedish and Finnish steel industry has a world-leading position in terms of efficient blast furnace operations with low CO2 emissions. This is a result of a successful development work carried out in the 1980s at LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Ak...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,638 Views
15 Pages

18 July 2020

This paper focuses on the principle study and application of a fractional crystallization methodology using a rotating and internally gas cooled crystallizer (so called cooled finger, developed at IME/RWTH Aachen) first applied to the refining of ger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,759 Views
18 Pages

17 July 2020

Brittle failure mechanisms can affect the seismic performance of structures composed of intersecting moment resisting frames, if the biaxial effects are not considered. In this research, the bidirectional cyclic response of H-columns with weak-axis m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,284 Views
14 Pages

17 July 2020

In this paper, a concurrent multiscale simulation strategy coupling atomistic and continuum models was proposed to investigate the three-dimensional contact responses of aluminum single crystal under both dry and lubricated conditions. The Hertz cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,864 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Heat Treatment on the Corrosion Resistance of Aluminum-Copper Coating

  • Mieczyslaw Scendo,
  • Slawomir Spadlo,
  • Katarzyna Staszewska-Samson and
  • Piotr Mlynarczyk

17 July 2020

Influence of heat treatment on the corrosion resistance of the aluminum-copper (Al-Cu) coating on the aluminum substrate was investigated. The coating was produced by the electrical discharge alloying (EDA) method. The surface and microstructure of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,807 Views
12 Pages

Investigation on Solid-State Phase Transformations in a 2510 Duplex Stainless Steel Grade

  • Irene Calliari,
  • Marco Breda,
  • Claudio Gennari,
  • Luca Pezzato,
  • Massimo Pellizzari and
  • Andrea Zambon

17 July 2020

Duplex and Super Duplex Stainless Steels are very prone to secondary phases formation related to ferrite decomposition at high temperatures. In the present paper the results on secondary phase precipitation in a 2510 Duplex Stainless Steel, heat-trea...

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