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Metals, Volume 11, Issue 3

2021 March - 150 articles

Cover Story: A new atomistic mechanism of heterogeneous nucleation is established, based on molecular dynamics simulations of liquid/substrate with negative lattice misfit. We found that nucleation completes deterministically within three atomic layers by structural templating to form a two-dimensional nucleus from which the new phase can grow: (1) The first layer accommodates misfit through a partial edge dislocation network; (2) the second layer twists an angle through a partial screw dislocation network to reduce lattice distortion; (3) the third layer creates a crystal plane of the solid (the 2D nucleus). This finding opens a new door to understand heterogeneous nucleation at atomic level. View this paper
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Articles (150)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,470 Views
9 Pages

Modification of Liquid Steel Viscosity and Surface Tension for Inert Gas Atomization of Metal Powder

  • Iurii Korobeinikov,
  • Anton Perminov,
  • Tobias Dubberstein and
  • Olena Volkova

23 March 2021

Inert gas atomization is one of the main sources for production of metal powder for powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing. The obtained final powder size distribution is controlled by various technological parameters: gas flow rate and pressur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,306 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Surface Preparation and Heat Treatment on Mechanical Behavior of Hybrid Aluminum Parts Manufactured by a Combination of Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Conventional Manufacturing Processes

  • Alessio Tommasi,
  • Nathalie Maillol,
  • Andrea Bertinetti,
  • Pavel Penchev,
  • Julien Bajolet,
  • Flavia Gili,
  • Daniele Pullini and
  • David Busquets Mataix

23 March 2021

Today, in industry, laser-based additive manufacturing (LAM) is used to produce high-value parts of very complex designs that are not manufacturable by conventional technologies; this process’ low production throughput and high cost prevent it from b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,076 Views
14 Pages

The Significance of Optimizing Mn-Content in Tuning the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of δ-TRIP Steels

  • Baoyu Xu,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Zhengxian Li,
  • Di Wu,
  • Guodong Wang,
  • Jinyu Guo,
  • Rendong Liu,
  • R. D. K. Misra and
  • Hongliang Yi

23 March 2021

The δ-TRIP steel has attracted a lot of attention for its potential application in automotive components, owing to the low density, good combination of strength, and ductility. As the difficulty in yield strength further increasement is caused by lar...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
8,193 Views
18 Pages

Strategies to Reduce Porosity in Al-Mg WAAM Parts and Their Impact on Mechanical Properties

  • Maider Arana,
  • Eneko Ukar,
  • Iker Rodriguez,
  • Amaia Iturrioz and
  • Pedro Alvarez

23 March 2021

With the advent of disruptive additive manufacturing (AM), there is an increasing interest and demand of high mechanical property aluminium parts built directly by these technologies. This has led to the need for continuous improvement of AM technolo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,572 Views
21 Pages

Solidification of Immiscible Alloys under High Magnetic Field: A Review

  • Chen Wei,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Yixuan He,
  • Jinshan Li and
  • Eric Beaugnon

23 March 2021

Immiscible alloy is a kind of functional metal material with broad application prospects in industry and electronic fields, which has aroused extensive attention in recent decades. In the solidification process of metallic material processing, variou...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,165 Views
17 Pages

22 March 2021

The drive for continuously improving the performance and increasing the efficiencies of marine transportation has resulted in the development of a new alloy, Mercalloy A362™. This alloy was designed to lighten Mercury Marine’s lower transmission gear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,605 Views
13 Pages

Tailoring Extra-Strength of a TWIP Steel by Combination of Multi-Pass Equal-Channel Angular Pressing and Warm Rolling

  • Marina Abramova,
  • Arseniy Raab,
  • Ruslan Z. Valiev,
  • Anna Khannanova,
  • Chong Soo Lee,
  • Jae Nam Kim,
  • Gyeong Hyeon Jang,
  • Jung Gi Kim,
  • Hyoung Seop Kim and
  • Nariman Enikeev
  • + 1 author

22 March 2021

Increasing the yield stress of twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steels is a demanding task for modern materials science. This aim can be achieved by microstructure refinement induced by heavy straining. We feature the microstructural evolution and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,985 Views
16 Pages

22 March 2021

In this study, the effect of calcium (Ca) and erbium (Er) on the microstructure, mechanical properties, and corrosion behavior of magnesium-zinc alloys is reported. The alloys were prepared using disintegrated melt deposition (DMD) technique using th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,703 Views
11 Pages

21 March 2021

Tin anode slime is a by-product of the tin electrolytic refining process. This study investigated a route to separate Sn, Sb, Bi, and Cu from tin anode slime after leaching with hydrochloric acid. In the solvent extraction process with tributyl phosp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
85 Citations
12,790 Views
21 Pages

The Corrosion of Stainless Steel Made by Additive Manufacturing: A Review

  • Gyeongbin Ko,
  • Wooseok Kim,
  • Kyungjung Kwon and
  • Tae-Kyu Lee

21 March 2021

The advantages of additive manufacturing (AM) of metals over traditional manufacturing methods have triggered many relevant studies comparing the mechanical properties, corrosion behavior, and microstructure of metals produced by AM or traditional ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,632 Views
10 Pages

20 March 2021

Addition of Al can decrease density and improve oxidation resistance of refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs), but may cause complicated precipitation and further affect mechanical properties. The present work studied the microstructural evolution o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,704 Views
30 Pages

19 March 2021

In this work, the influence of the intermetallic particle fragmentation during hot rolling of the as cast structure on the evolution of textures in aluminum alloys 8011, 5182 and 1565 was investigated. For this purpose, laboratory multi-pass rolling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,476 Views
11 Pages

19 March 2021

Wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is usually for fabricating components due to its low equipment cost, high material utilization rate and cladding efficiency. However, its applications are limited by the large heat input decided by process p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,300 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Chemical Etching and Ultra-Fine Grain Structure of Titanium on MG-63 Cells Response

  • Denis Nazarov,
  • Elena Zemtsova,
  • Vladimir Smirnov,
  • Ilya Mitrofanov,
  • Maxim Maximov,
  • Natalia Yudintceva and
  • Maxim Shevtsov

19 March 2021

In this work, we study the influence of the surface properties of ultrafine grained (UFG) and coarse grained (CG) titanium on the morphology, viability, proliferation and differentiation of osteoblast-like MG-63 cells. Wet chemical etching in H2SO4/H...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,687 Views
13 Pages

19 March 2021

The effect of Cu2+ in bulk solution on pitting corrosion resistance of extra-high-purity type 316 stainless-steel was investigated. Pitting occurred in 0.1 M NaCl-1 mM CuCl2, whereas pitting was not initiated in 0.1 M NaCl. Although deposition of Cu2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,709 Views
16 Pages

Active Brazing of Alumina and Copper with Multicomponent Ag-Cu-Sn-Zr-Ti Filler

  • Sri Harini Rajendran,
  • Seung Jun Hwang and
  • Jae Pil Jung

19 March 2021

The study was designed to investigate the synergic effect of Ti and Sn in the active metal brazing of Al2O3 ceramic to copper brazed, using the multicomponent Ag-Cu-Zr filler alloy. Numerous fine and hexagonal-shaped rod-like ternary intermetallic (Z...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,656 Views
12 Pages

Surface Modification of the EBM Ti-6Al-4V Alloy by Pulsed Ion Beam

  • Natalia Pushilina,
  • Ekaterina Stepanova,
  • Andrey Stepanov and
  • Maxim Syrtanov

19 March 2021

The effect of surface modification of Ti-6Al-4V samples manufactured by electron beam melting (EBM) using a pulsed carbon ion beam is studied in the present work. Based on the results of XRD, SEM, and TEM analysis, patterns of changes in the microstr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,507 Views
11 Pages

19 March 2021

This study observed the effect of filler metal type on mechanical properties of NAB (NiAl-bronze) material fabricated using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) technology. The selection of filler metal type is must consider the field condition, me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,490 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2021

In order to study a new thread rolling forming process from a microscopic perspective, a polycrystalline model was established, based on the crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) and Voronoi polyhedron theory. The fluidity of metals was st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,946 Views
18 Pages

Precipitation Criterion for Inhibiting Austenite Grain Coarsening during Carburization of Al-Containing 20Cr Gear Steels

  • Huasong Liu,
  • Yannan Dong,
  • Hongguang Zheng,
  • Xiangchun Liu,
  • Peng Lan,
  • Haiyan Tang and
  • Jiaquan Zhang

18 March 2021

AlN precipitates are frequently adopted to pin the austenite grain boundaries for the high-temperature carburization of special gear steels. For these steels, the grain coarsening criterion in the carburizing process is required when encountering the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,875 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2021

Even today, there are countries that are affected by war and its pitfalls. The authors have decided to present a part of the accompanying research results in this article. This research precedes the design of a demining machine Božena 5. The main goa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,334 Views
11 Pages

Laser Beam Welding of a Ti-15Mo/TiB Metal–Matrix Composite

  • Maxim Ozerov,
  • Elizaveta Povolyaeva,
  • Nikita Stepanov,
  • Volker Ventzke,
  • René Dinse,
  • Nikolai Kashaev and
  • Sergey Zherebtsov

18 March 2021

A Ti-15Mo/TiB metal–matrix composite was produced by spark plasma sintering at 1400 °C. The fractions of the elements in the initial powder mixture were 80.75 wt.% Ti, 14.25 wt.% Mo, and 5 wt.% TiB2. The initial structure of the synthesized composite...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,528 Views
13 Pages

Characterization of Shock Wave Damages in Explosion Welded Mo/Cu Clads

  • Pradeep Kumar Parchuri,
  • Shota Kotegawa,
  • Kazuhiro Ito,
  • Hajime Yamamoto,
  • Akihisa Mori,
  • Shigeru Tanaka and
  • Kazuyuki Hokamoto

18 March 2021

The shock wave damage during explosive welding has not been reported in a flyer Mo plate of the Mo/Cu clads. However, it would be an inevitable problem in group VI elements. This study was aimed to characterize the shock wave damage in the Mo plate,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,461 Views
22 Pages

18 March 2021

Friction press joining is an innovative joining process for bonding plastics and metals without additives in an overlap configuration. This paper presents for the first time a model-based approach for designing a multi-variable model predictive contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,024 Views
16 Pages

17 March 2021

A cylindrical deep drawing test was conducted for the purpose of improving the drawability, product accuracy, and quality in warm deep drawing using a superplastic material with large strain rate dependence. Then, the effects of blank holding force (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,713 Views
19 Pages

Feasibility Study of the Cranial Implant Fabricated without Supports in Electron Beam Melting

  • Khaja Moiduddin,
  • Syed Hammad Mian,
  • Wadea Ameen,
  • Hisham Alkhalefah and
  • Abdul Sayeed

17 March 2021

Additive manufacturing (AM), particularly electron beam melting (EBM), is becoming increasingly common in the medical industry because of its remarkable benefits. The application of personalized titanium alloy implants produced using EBM has received...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,248 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Heat Treatment Conditions of Joints in Grade P91 Steel: Looking for More Sustainable Solutions

  • Vitor F. C. Sousa,
  • Francisco J. G. Silva,
  • António P. Pinho,
  • António B. Pereira and
  • Olga C. Paiva

17 March 2021

Grade P91 is a relatively new class of steel, which has received special attention from designers because it presents extremely interesting characteristics for specific applications. This steel exhibits ideal properties for demanding applications, es...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,136 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2021

The solidifying steel follows highly nonlinear thermo-mechanical behavior depending on the loading history, temperature, and metallurgical phase fraction calculations (liquid, ferrite, and austenite). Numerical modeling with a computationally challen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,695 Views
14 Pages

17 March 2021

A front automobile fender with a negative angle was trial produced via rapid superplastic forming (SPF) technology. The tensile test of industrial AA5083 was carried out at elevated temperatures, and the results showed that the maximum elongation was...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,739 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2021

An innovative trajectory strategy was proposed and accessed for wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), applicable to different and more complex geometries, rather than being a single solution. This strategy, named Pixel, can be defined as a complex...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,038 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Ceramic Particles Character on Resulted Properties of Zinc-Hydroxyapatite/Monetite Composites

  • Klára Hosová,
  • Jan Pinc,
  • Andrea Školáková,
  • Vilém Bartůněk,
  • Petr Veřtát,
  • Tereza Školáková,
  • Filip Průša,
  • Dalibor Vojtěch and
  • Jaroslav Čapek

17 March 2021

Zinc and its alloys seem to be promising candidates for biodegradable applications. Those materials are often modified by other elements or compounds in order to enhance their properties. The combination of zinc and apatites is challenging for severa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,817 Views
10 Pages

17 March 2021

Seawater and sea sand concrete (SWSSC) is a highly attractive alternative to normal concrete (NC) that requires huge amounts of fresh water and river sand. However, reinforcements of stainless steel (instead of mild steel that is used in NC) may be r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,378 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2021

The applicability of both prediction methods for low-cycle fatigue life of powder superalloy based on the Manson-Coffin equation and damage mechanics were addressed. Both fatigue life prediction models were evaluated by low-cycle fatigue experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,577 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2021

The magnetic properties of commercial dual-phase (DP) steels (DP600, DP800 and DP1000 grades) were evaluated using initial permeability, incremental permeability and coercivity and correlated with the key microstructural differences between the grade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,631 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2021

Dissimilar metal joining between Al and Cu is effective for reducing the weight and cost of electrical components. In this study, dissimilar lap joining of pure Al to pure Cu with an Al-Ni filler material was conducted using tungsten inert gas (TIG)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,011 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2021

Titanium additions are often used for boron factor and primary austenite grain size control in boron high- and ultra-high-strength alloys. Due to the risk of formation of coarse TiN during solidification the addition of titanium is limited in respect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,164 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Deposition Patterns on Distortion of H13 Steel by Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing

  • Xufeng Li,
  • Jian Lin,
  • Zhidong Xia,
  • Yongqiang Zhang and
  • Hanguang Fu

15 March 2021

Wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) has been considered as one of the potential additive-manufacturing technologies to fabricate large components. However, its industrial application is still limited by the existence of stress and distortion. Duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
5,129 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Mo Element on the Mechanical Properties and Tribological Responses of CoCrFeNiMox High-Entropy Alloys

  • Ying Liu,
  • Yongxin Xie,
  • Shaogang Cui,
  • Yanliang Yi,
  • Xuewei Xing,
  • Xiaojian Wang and
  • Wei Li

15 March 2021

Certain amounts of precipitate in CoCrFeNiMox (simplified as Mox) is beneficial to the wear resistance; however, the optimal chemical content of Mo and the anti-wear mechanism behind it remains unclear. The Mox (x = 0, 0.3, 0.5, 1, 1.5 in molar ratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,934 Views
13 Pages

Creep Behavior and Microstructural Evolution of Al–Cu–Mg–Ag Alloys with Various High Cu Contents

  • Fangle Peng,
  • Jiefang Wang,
  • Ruibin Yang,
  • Yage Xia,
  • Guopeng Zhang and
  • Bin Cai

15 March 2021

The creep behavior and microstructural evolution of three Al–Cu–Mg–Ag alloys with Cu content around its solid solubility limit in Al (5.65 wt %) were investigated at 180–240 °C and applied stress of 150–300 MPa. The creep resistance of aged alloy, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,608 Views
8 Pages

Ti Interlayer Mediated Uniform NiGe Formation under Low-Temperature Microwave Annealing

  • Jun Yang,
  • Yunxia Ping,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Wenjie Yu,
  • Zhongying Xue,
  • Xing Wei,
  • Aimin Wu and
  • Bo Zhang

15 March 2021

The reactions between nickel and germanium are investigated by the incorporation of a titanium interlayer on germanium (100) substrate. Under microwave annealing (MWA), the nickel germanide layers are formed from 150 °C to 350 °C for 360 s in ambient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,262 Views
13 Pages

14 March 2021

The plasticity of Mg–6Zn–5Ca–3Ce alloy fabricated by rapid solidification (RS) at room temperature is poor due to its hexagonal-close-packed (HCP) structure. Therefore, hot deformation of RS Mg–6Zn–5Ca–3Ce alloy at elevated temperature would be a maj...

  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
16,903 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2021

Titanium alloys have been considered as unique materials for many years. Even their microstructure and operational properties have been well known and described in details, the new technologies introduced—e.g., 3D printing—have restored the need for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,497 Views
24 Pages

14 March 2021

The paper presents a novel solution for improving the accuracy of the wall area of parts manufactured by single point incremental forming. Thus, a forming tool with a special design that works according to the principle of circumferential hammering i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,797 Views
14 Pages

14 March 2021

Surface defects decrease the fatigue limit of metals. In this study, the effects of surface defects on the fatigue limit of high-strength spring steel specimens were investigated. Several equations to predict the fatigue limit of specimens with surfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,054 Views
11 Pages

Determining Forming Limit Diagrams Using Sub-Sized Specimen Geometry and Comparing FLD Evaluation Methods

  • Kateřina Rubešová,
  • Martin Rund,
  • Sylwia Rzepa,
  • Hana Jirková,
  • Štěpán Jeníček,
  • Miroslav Urbánek,
  • Ludmila Kučerová and
  • Pavel Konopík

14 March 2021

Sheet metal forming boundaries are established using the forming limit diagram (FLD). The Nakajima and Marciniak tests, which are based on stretching a material using a punch, are the most commonly used methods for determining the FLD or fracture for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,825 Views
13 Pages

13 March 2021

Stress-relaxation tests were performed during plastic deformation at room temperature of three magnesium Mg–Li alloys reinforced with 10 vol% of short Saffil fibers. For comparison, the composite with the Mg matrix was studied. The time dependencies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,772 Views
13 Pages

13 March 2021

In this paper, AISI 441 stainless steel was investigated as a casting steel using the investment casting process (ICP). The microstructure and mechanical properties of the as-cast and normalizing treatment samples were analyzed. The results show that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,966 Views
20 Pages

Advantageous Description of Short Fatigue Crack Growth Rates in Austenitic Stainless Steels with Distinct Properties

  • Lukáš Trávníček,
  • Ivo Kuběna,
  • Veronika Mazánová,
  • Tomáš Vojtek,
  • Jaroslav Polák,
  • Pavel Hutař and
  • Miroslav Šmíd

13 March 2021

In this work two approaches to the description of short fatigue crack growth rate under large-scale yielding condition were comprehensively tested: (i) plastic component of the J-integral and (ii) Polák model of crack propagation. The ability to pred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,258 Views
11 Pages

13 March 2021

Microstructure of Al-Cu-Yb and Al-Cu-Gd alloys at casting, hot-rolled -cold-rolled and annealed state were observed; the effect of annealing on the microstructure was studied, as were the mechanical properties and forming properties of the alloys, an...

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