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Metals, Volume 14, Issue 6

June 2024 - 133 articles

Cover Story: The rapid development in the field of multicomponent and high-entropy alloys provides an appealing alternative to the challenging issue of lead encountered in commercial brass alloys. Engineering challenges arising in attempts to reduce lead could be successfully tackled by applying the high-entropy alloy (HEA) design concept to these otherwise conventional alloys, resulting in the creation of novel high-entropy brasses (HEBs). Our research deals with the compositional design and thermal processing of a novel lead-free Cu–Al–Zn–Sn medium-entropy brass alloy. This alloy has an elevated specific strength, surpassing many commercial brass alloys, while being entirely lead-free. Applying this approach to commercial alloys provides a feasible solution for modern engineering challenges. View this paper
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Articles (133)

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,064 Views
11 Pages

Application of an Artificial Neural Network for Efficient Computation of Chemical Activities within an EAF Process Model

  • Alexander Reinicke,
  • Til-Niklas Engbrecht,
  • Lilly Schüttensack and
  • Thomas Echterhof

20 June 2024

The electric arc furnace (EAF) is considered the second most important process for the production of crude steel and is usually used for the melting of scrap. With the current emphasis on defossilization, its share in global steelmaking is likely to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,966 Views
28 Pages

20 June 2024

This paper deals with the austempering of ductile iron (ADI) and clarifies the influential austempering parameters during the production of ADI. During the austempering process, the heat treatment parameters can be varied, thus influencing the final...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,336 Views
11 Pages

Production of Rare-Earth-Free Iron Nitride Magnets (α″-Fe16N2)

  • Tetsuji Saito,
  • Hitoshi Yamamoto and
  • Daisuke Nishio-Hamane

20 June 2024

To realize rare-earth-free magnets, we studied iron nitride (α″-Fe16N2) magnets, which contain no rare-earth elements. Fe-N powder with the α″-Fe16N2 phase has a high saturation magnetization comparable to high-performance rar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,101 Views
19 Pages

Preparation and Characterization of Duplex PEO/UV-Curable Powder Coating on AZ91 Magnesium Alloys

  • Łukasz Florczak,
  • Katarzyna Pojnar,
  • Barbara Kościelniak and
  • Barbara Pilch-Pitera

20 June 2024

Magnesium alloys, because of their excellent strength-to-weight ratio, are increasingly used in many industries. When used in external elements, the key factor is to provide adequate anticorrosion protection. High-temperature, cured-powder coatings a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,567 Views
17 Pages

20 June 2024

Artificial intelligence has been widely applied in image recognition and segmentation, achieving significant results. However, its application in the field of materials science is relatively limited. Metallography is an important technique for charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,478 Views
15 Pages

Slip Statistics for a Bulk Metallic Glass Treated by Cryogenic Thermal Cycling Reflect Its Optimized Plasticity

  • Jiaojiao Li,
  • Yao Liu,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Huiyun Zhang,
  • Yajun Zhang,
  • Huihu Lu,
  • Zhong Wang and
  • Yong Liu

20 June 2024

Enhanced plasticity is obtained in a structurally rejuvenated Zr-based bulk metallic glass (BMG) that has been treated via cryogenic thermal cycling (CTC) for one hundred cycles. More than one primary shear band is activated due to the structural rej...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,778 Views
14 Pages

20 June 2024

Waste-conductive silver pastes are considered an important secondary resource. The recovery of metals from waste-conductive silver pastes have high economic value. The traditional cyanidation method has serious environmental pollution, while the thio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,221 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2024

In this paper, Al-Mg-Si alloys with a thickness of 4 mm are welded by using laser beam welding (LBW) and laser-MIG hybrid welding, respectively, and the microstructure and mechanical properties of the two joints are investigated. The results show tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,649 Views
17 Pages

Tunability of Martensitic Transformation with Cohesive Energies for Fe80−xMnxCo10Cr10 High-Entropy Alloys

  • Yu Cao,
  • Xiaoliang Zhang,
  • Daoxuan Zhou,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Deng Pan and
  • Hongtao Wang

19 June 2024

Multi-element alloys (e.g., non-equiatomic FeMnCoCr alloys) have attracted extensive attention from researchers due to the breaking of the strengthen-ductility tradeoff relationship. Plenty of work has been conducted to investigate the ingredient-dep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,237 Views
15 Pages

Failure Analysis of the Half-Shafts Belonging to a Three-Wheeled Electric Vehicle

  • Inês Mendes,
  • J. Henrique Lopes,
  • Eduardo Matos Almas and
  • Luís Reis

19 June 2024

In the electric vehicles studied, the driven wheels and the differential, which are responsible for the transfer of power and rotational motion, are connected by half-shafts. The failure of two half-shafts in the rear gearbox of a three-wheeled elect...

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Metals - ISSN 2075-4701