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Metals, Volume 13, Issue 9

September 2023 - 131 articles

Cover Story: The effect of solution annealing on the microstructure, aging, and over-aging behaviour of a precipitation-hardening stainless steel (PHSS) manufactured via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) was investigated. Despite the different microstructure in the as-built and solution annealed conditions, the steel exhibited the same peak hardness, aging, and over-aging behaviour, which was related to nanometric precipitates and martensite-to-austenite reversion. Therefore, solution annealing on LPBF-manufactured PHSS is not mandatory in order to achieve high hardness and thermal stability, which are required for plastic injection moulding applications, thus enabling the production of complex tools with conformal cooling channels, hardened through simple direct aging treatment. View this paper
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Articles (131)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,591 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2023

The influence of artificial aging time on the microstructures and mechanical properties of the 6063 aluminum alloy profile extruded by porthole die was investigated through hardness testing, expansion testing, scanning electron microscope (SEM), and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,078 Views
16 Pages

Titanium Impurity Control in V-Bearing Pig Iron Prepared via the Sodium Smelting of Vanadium–Titanium Magnetite

  • Zhiwei Bian,
  • Lei Cao,
  • Desheng Chen,
  • Hongxin Zhao,
  • Tao Qi,
  • Lina Wang and
  • Yulan Zhen

19 September 2023

The sodium smelting of vanadium–titanium magnetite (VTM) can realize a multi-component comprehensive utilization of VTM. To broaden the application of the vanadium-bearing pig iron produced through this process, it is imperative to maintain the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,468 Views
36 Pages

19 September 2023

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) stands out as a promising approach within the realm of additive manufacturing, particularly for the synthesis of CNT-AlSi10Mg nanocomposites. This review delves into a thorough exploration of the transformation in micr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,866 Views
16 Pages

Precipitation Behavior and Corrosion Properties of Stirred Zone in FSWed AA5083 Al-Mg Alloy after Sensitization

  • Wenbin Gao,
  • Jiaao Ning,
  • Xiaoyan Gu,
  • Liangyu Chen,
  • Hang Liang,
  • Wenhang Li and
  • John J. Lewandowski

19 September 2023

This paper investigated the Mg-rich phase precipitation behavior and the corrosion performance throughout the thickness direction within the stirred zone (SZ) of friction stir welded (FSW) AA5083 alloy after 175 °C/100 h sensitization. For the as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,715 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2023

With the development of laser surface modification techniques like direct laser metal deposition (DLMD), titanium alloy (TI6Al4V) may now have its entire base metal microstructure preserved while having its surface modified to have better characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,508 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Friction Stir Welding on Short-Term Creep Response of Pure Titanium

  • Stefano Spigarelli,
  • Michael Regev,
  • Alberto Santoni,
  • Marcello Cabibbo and
  • Eleonora Santecchia

19 September 2023

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a recent joining technique that has received considerable attention. FSW causes significant variations in the material microstructure commonly associated with changes in the mechanical properties. The present study deal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,279 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2023

Additive manufacturing of high strength Al alloys brings problems with hot cracking during rapid solidification. One of the ways to solve this challenge is technology developed by the Elementum 3D company. The way consists of inoculation by ceramic n...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,549 Views
8 Pages

Wear Behavior of Metal Bonded Grinding Tools When Grinding Ti-6Al-4V in an Oxygen-Free Atmosphere

  • Berend Denkena,
  • Benjamin Bergmann,
  • Nils Hansen and
  • Christian Heller

19 September 2023

In the current study, the wear behavior of bronze-bonded grinding tools when grinding the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V was explored. In this process, oxidation plays a key role since both the bronze bond and the titanium workpiece chemically react with o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,681 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2023

Numerical simulation of the thixoforming process of GH4037 nickel-based superalloy disc-shaped components is performed using DEFORM-3D software (Deform V11). The complete numerical simulation process includes three stages in this work: heat transfer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,273 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2023

Sulfating roasting tests were conducted with different agents to investigate lithium recovery from spent lithium-ion manganese oxide (LMO) batteries. In this study, CaSO4 and CaCO3 were used as reactants, and the optimal temperature, residence time,...

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