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Metals, Volume 8, Issue 10

2018 October - 125 articles

Cover Story: Laser welding of dissimilar high-strength steels is typically investigated by assessing their weldability based on alloy chemistry. This study reveals the influence of joint geometry on weld quality. Weld defects are heavily dependent on the component geometry. The resulting weld microstructures are also predicted by using neural network-simulated Continuous Cooling Transformation diagrams, which show the formation of a mixture of microstructures, such as bainite, martensite and pearlite in the weld. The thermal fields are measured using thermocouples and reveal the strong influence of component geometry on the cooling rate, which in term defines the weld microstructure and the occurring hardness. View the paper here.
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Articles (125)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,359 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2018

A series of Mg-1Al-1Sn-Mn magnesium alloy sheets were rolled from 3 mm to 1 mm under temperatures of 150 °C, 200 °C, and 250 °C in four rolling passes using on-line heating rolling. The conventional rolling was also performed for comparis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,398 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2018

In recent years, with the increasing research and development of the light-emitting diode (LED) industry, which contains gallium nitride (GaN), it is expected that there will be a large amount of related wastes in the future. Gallium has an extremely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,865 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Ag, Nd, and Yb on the Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Mg‒Zn‒Ca Metallic Glasses

  • Zhuofan Liang,
  • Lianzan Yang,
  • Yongyan Li,
  • Xi Wang,
  • Chunling Qin,
  • Weimin Zhao,
  • Hui Yu and
  • Zhifeng Wang

20 October 2018

Mg‒Zn‒Ca metallic glasses are regarded as promising biodegradable materials. Previous studies on this alloy system have mostly focused on the composition regions with a large critical size (Dc) for the formation of metallic glasses, while this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,225 Views
10 Pages

20 October 2018

This study demonstrates the feasibility of a novel casting process called tailored additive casting (TAC). The TAC process involves injecting the melt several times to fabricate a single component, with a few seconds of holding between successive inj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,468 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2018

Microstructure control is of vital importance in tailoring physical properties of metallic materials. Despite the enormous efforts devoted to the study of microstructure evolution during recrystallization, most previous research has been conducted un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,174 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2018

Pulsed thermography is commonly used as a non-destructive technique for evaluating defects within materials and components. In the last few years, many algorithms have been developed with the aim to detect defects and different methods have been used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,070 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Holmium Additions on Microstructure and Properties of A356 Aluminum Alloys

  • Qiang Wang,
  • Zhiming Shi,
  • Hong Li,
  • Yaming Lin,
  • Ningyu Li,
  • Tianhao Gong,
  • Ruiying Zhang and
  • Huimin Liu

19 October 2018

Sr-modification of A356 alloys has distinct shortages due to the volatilization and oxidation during remelting and pouring, which often reduce the modification efficiency and mechanical properties of the alloys. To avoid the adverse effects and enhan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,775 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2018

In this paper, TiAlN-coated cemented carbide tools with chip groove were used to machine titanium alloy Ti-6Al-0.6Cr-0.4Fe-0.4Si-0.01B under dry conditions in order to investigate the machining performance of this cutting tool. Wear mechanisms of TiA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,034 Views
15 Pages

Nano ZrO2 Synthesis by Extraction of Zr(IV) from ZrO(NO3)2 by PC88A, and Determination of Extraction Impurities by ICP-MS

  • Manh Nhuong Chu,
  • Lan T. H. Nguyen,
  • Xuan Truong Mai,
  • Doan Van Thuan,
  • Long Giang Bach,
  • Duy Chinh Nguyen and
  • Duc Cuong Nguyen

19 October 2018

High purity Zirconium (Zr) materials are essential in many components of nuclear reactors, especially fuel cladding tubes. Due to the matrix influence, determination of impurities in the Zr materials requires separation from the Zr matrix. Among extr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,667 Views
9 Pages

Study of the Influence of Intermix Conditions on Steel Cleanliness

  • Branislav Bul’ko,
  • Marek Molnár,
  • Peter Demeter,
  • Dana Baricová,
  • Alena Pribulová and
  • Peter Futáš

19 October 2018

Modern steel plants produce today a large portfolio of various steel grades, many for end-uses demanding high quality. In order to utilize the maximum productivity of the continuous-casting machine, it is sometimes necessary to cast steel grades with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,635 Views
32 Pages

19 October 2018

Background: Creep-fatigue phenomena are complex and difficult to model in ways that are useful from an engineering design perspective. Existing empirical-based models can be difficult to apply in practice, have poor accuracy, and lack economy. Need:...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,904 Views
13 Pages

Investigation of Heat Treatment Strategies for Additively-Manufactured Tools of X37CrMoV5-1

  • Daniel Junker,
  • Oliver Hentschel,
  • Michael Schmidt and
  • Marion Merklein

19 October 2018

For cost-intensive products like automobiles, clients often wish to personalize their product, what forces the industry to create a large diversity of combinable parts. Additionally, the life cycles of many components become shorter. For highly-stres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,818 Views
13 Pages

The Distribution and Severity of Corrosion Damage at Eight Distinct Zones of Metallic Femoral Stem Implants

  • Roohollah Milimonfared,
  • Reza H. Oskouei,
  • Mark Taylor and
  • Lucian B. Solomon

18 October 2018

Metallic taper junctions of modular total hip replacement implants are analysed for corrosion damage using visual scoring based on different granularity levels that span from analysing the taper holistically to dividing the taper into several distinc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,367 Views
11 Pages

18 October 2018

Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) was performed on a Mg (6 wt %) Zn alloy at temperatures from 160 to 240 °C and the microstructures and mechanical properties were studied using optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microsc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,815 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2018

The metallurgical performances in a mold cavity were investigated using a conventional bilateral-port nozzle or a swirling flow nozzle (SFN) plus with in-mold electromagnetic stirring (M-EMS) for bloom continuous casting (CC) process. To this end, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,582 Views
12 Pages

Finishing Turning of Ni Superalloy Haynes 282

  • José Díaz-Álvarez,
  • Antonio Díaz-Álvarez,
  • Henar Miguélez and
  • José Luis Cantero

18 October 2018

Nickel-based superalloys are widely used in the aeronautical industry, especially in components requiring excellent corrosion resistance, enhanced thermal fatigue properties, and thermal stability. Haynes 282 is a nickel-based superalloy that was dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,191 Views
14 Pages

Change of the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Slag during Oxygen Blowing in the Oxygen Converter Process

  • Dana Baricová,
  • Alena Pribulová,
  • Peter Futáš,
  • Branislav Buľko and
  • Peter Demeter

18 October 2018

The article presents the results of the investigation of changes in the chemical and mineralogical composition of slag during steel production in a blown oxygen converter. This process was monitored using the slag samples that were collected during t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,230 Views
8 Pages

Surface Wear in Hadfield Steel Castings DOPED with Nitrided Vanadium

  • Konstantin Vdovin,
  • Alexander Pesin,
  • Nikolay Feoktistov and
  • Dmitri Gorlenko

18 October 2018

This paper examines possible industrial applications of high manganese steel and the feasibility of its inoculation with a new ferroalloy, vanadium nitride. The abrasive and impact-abrasion surface wear experienced by castings has a classical pattern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,352 Views
22 Pages

Hot Deformation Behavior and Constitutive Modeling of H13-Mod Steel

  • Changmin Li,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Yuanbiao Tan and
  • Fei Zhao

18 October 2018

The H13-mod steel optimized by composition and heat treatment has reached the performance index of the shield machine hob. The hot deformation behavior of the H13-mod steel was investigated by compression tests in the temperature range from 900 to 11...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,505 Views
15 Pages

Fatigue Strength Analysis and Fatigue Damage Evaluation of Roller Chain

  • Ryoichi Saito,
  • Nao-Aki Noda,
  • Yoshikazu Sano,
  • Jian Song,
  • Takeru Minami,
  • Yuuka Birou,
  • Arata Miyagi and
  • Yinsa Huang

18 October 2018

This paper deals with the roller chain commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of industrial machinery, including conveyors, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and so forth. It consists of a series of four components called a pin,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,557 Views
9 Pages

Martensite Transformation and Mechanical Properties of Polycrystalline Co-Ni-Al Alloys with Gd Doping

  • Jia Ju,
  • Huan Liu,
  • Liguo Shuai,
  • Zhuang Liu,
  • Yan Kang,
  • Chen Yan and
  • Hong Li

18 October 2018

In order to improve the mechanical properties and phase transition temperature, the influence of Gd doping on the microstructure, phase transition temperature and mechanical properties of Co35Ni32Al33 alloy was investigated. The results show that the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,794 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2018

Background: Nowadays, hip cups are being used in a wide range of design versions and in an increasing number of units. Their development is progressing steadily. In contrast to conventional methods of manufacturing acetabular cups, additive methods p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,543 Views
8 Pages

17 October 2018

Increasing current density is one of the main methods for improving the productivity of copper electrorefining. However, in the conventional bottom-inlet/top-outlet mode, an increase in current density leads to a deterioration of the surface quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,003 Views
17 Pages

Scandium and Titanium Recovery from Bauxite Residue by Direct Leaching with a Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquid

  • Chiara Bonomi,
  • Alexandra Alexandri,
  • Johannes Vind,
  • Angeliki Panagiotopoulou,
  • Petros Tsakiridis and
  • Dimitrios Panias

17 October 2018

In this study, bauxite residue was directly leached using the Brønsted acidic ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogensulfate. Stirring rate, retention time, temperature, and pulp density have been studied in detail as the parameters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,441 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2018

Synthesis of NiTiSn by a mechanical alloying process followed by a high temperature thermal annealing was studied. Experiments were conducted varying parameters like the provided energy, the mechanical alloying reaction time, as well as the annealing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,017 Views
20 Pages

17 October 2018

The analysis of fretting fatigue plays an important role in many engineering fields. The presence of heterogeneity may affect the performance of a machine or a structure, including its lifetime and stability. In this paper, the effect of randomly dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,313 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2018

We used classical molecular dynamics simulation to study the ferrite–austenite phase transformation of iron in the vicinity of a phase boundary to cementite. When heating a ferrite–cementite bicrystal, we found that the austenitic transfo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,441 Views
13 Pages

16 October 2018

Brazing of titanium provides a joining technique suitable for the fabrication of highly-loaded aerospace components, but it still poses numerous challenges, such as the formation of brittle intermetallic interphases. This study of the interphase form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,937 Views
11 Pages

16 October 2018

In this study, we applied an emerging, environmentally friendly surface engineering technology, electrolytic plasma processing (EPP), for the surface modification of Q195 structure carbon steel surface pretreatment and further Zn coating. Treating th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,851 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2018

In this study, the dependence of the cyclic deformation behavior on the surface morphology of metastable austenitic HSD® 600 TWinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) steel was investigated. This steel—with the alloying concept Mn-Al-Si—show...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,934 Views
12 Pages

Assessing Corrosion Fatigue Characteristics of Dissimilar Material Weld between Alloy617 and 12Cr Steel Using Buttering Welding Technique

  • Jeong Ho Hwang,
  • Ju Hwa Lee,
  • Hafiz Waqar Ahmad,
  • Seung Woo Ha,
  • Dong Ho Bae and
  • Henok Yilma Kebede

15 October 2018

In this study, dissimilar material welding between Alloy617 and 12Cr steel was performed using the buttering welding technique on the 12Cr steel side in order to increase the weldability. After multi-pass welding, post weld heat treatment (PWHT) was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,647 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2018

In order to manufacture complex curvilinear generatrix workpieces of high-temperature titanium alloy, the hot tensile behavior of Ti55 alloy sheet was tested and the hot press forming process was investigated using Finite Element Method (FEM) simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,376 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2018

Bolted connections are widely used in various mechanical structures due to their superior fastening properties. However, vibration and fatigue loads in the structure are likely to cause fatigue failure of the bolted joints, especially those under hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,003 Views
15 Pages

15 October 2018

A novel A356 Al-based composite reinforced with Ti@(Al-Si-Ti) core-shell-structured particles (Ti@(Al-Si-Ti)p) was prepared utilizing powder thixoforming method. The effects of mold temperature on the microstructures and tensile properties of the com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,542 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2018

The complex strain hardening behaviors of dual phase (DP) steel are subjected to the heterogeneous microstructures. The current work aims to predict the strain hardening behaviors of ferrite-martensite DP steel, focusing on the effects of heterogeneo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,971 Views
14 Pages

Microstructural Characterization of the Anisotropy and Cyclic Deformation Behavior of Selective Laser Melted AlSi10Mg Structures

  • Mustafa Awd,
  • Felix Stern,
  • Alexander Kampmann,
  • Daniel Kotzem,
  • Jochen Tenkamp and
  • Frank Walther

13 October 2018

The laser-based fusion of metallic powder allows construction of components with arbitrary complexity. In selective laser melting, the rapid cooling of melt pools in the direction of the component building causes significant anisotropy of the microst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,150 Views
13 Pages

Formation Procedure of Reaction Phases in Al Hot Dipping Process of Steel

  • Dongik Shin,
  • Jeong-Yong Lee,
  • Hoejun Heo and
  • Chung-Yun Kang

12 October 2018

This study investigated the nucleation and growth mechanism of reaction layers and phases of hot-dipped boron steel in pure Al at 690 °C for 0–120 s. In the case of a dipping time of 30 s, reaction nuclei of width 10–15 μm and height 10 μm were forme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,894 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2018

A mesoscopic mechanical model based on the Mori-Tanaka method and Eshelby’s inclusion theory was presented to investigate the uniform elastic deformation behavior of Ti6Al4V with β-Ti and α-Ti phases. In particular, elastic mechanics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
10,224 Views
9 Pages

12 October 2018

Generalized stacking fault energies of aluminum alloys were calculated using density functional theory. Stacking fault energy of aluminum alloys was correlated with the d-electrons number of transition metal alloying elements. The tendency to twinnin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,496 Views
13 Pages

Crystallization Kinetics and Consolidation of Al82La10Fe4Ni4 Glassy Alloy Powder by Spark Plasma Sintering

  • Nguyen Hoang Viet,
  • Nguyen Thi Hoang Oanh,
  • Ji-Soon Kim and
  • Alberto Moreira Jorge

11 October 2018

The mechanically alloyed Al82La10Ni4Fe4 glassy powder displays a two-step devitrification characterized by the precipitation of fcc-Al together with small amounts of the intermetallic Al11La3 phase in the first crystallization. The interface-controll...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,913 Views
4 Pages

11 October 2018

This study determines the feasibility of describing the flow stress within the five-power-law creep regime, using a linear superposition of a dislocation hardening term and a significant solute strengthening term. It is assumed that the solutes are r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,335 Views
13 Pages

Possible Effects and Mechanisms of Ultrasonic Cavitation on Oxide Inclusions during Direct-Chill Casting of an Al Alloy

  • Yun Zhang,
  • Ruiqing Li,
  • Xiaoqian Li,
  • Yilong Yang,
  • Pinghu Chen,
  • Fang Dong and
  • Ripeng Jiang

11 October 2018

Oxide films or inclusions can reduce the continuity and integrity of materials and they always lead to a significant reduction in the mechanical properties of an aluminum alloy. They can greatly reduce the plastic flow behavior of materials, thus aff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,250 Views
10 Pages

Feasibility of a Two-Stage Forming Process of 316L Austenitic Stainless Steels with Rapid Electrically Assisted Annealing

  • Viet Tien Luu,
  • Thi Anh Nguyet Nguyen,
  • Sung-Tae Hong,
  • Hye-Jin Jeong and
  • Heung Nam Han

11 October 2018

The post-annealing mechanical behavior of 316L austenitic stainless steel (SUS316L) after electrically assisted (EA) annealing with a single pulse of electric current is experimentally investigated to evaluate the feasibility of a two-stage forming p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,443 Views
12 Pages

11 October 2018

The cracking initiation mechanism of high Cu-bearing nitrogen-alloyed austenitic stainless steel was systematically investigated by using a Gleeble-1500D simulator under different strains and deformation temperatures in the hot deformation process. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,450 Views
12 Pages

Design Optimisation of the Feeding System of a Novel Counter-Gravity Casting Process

  • Michail Papanikolaou,
  • Emanuele Pagone,
  • Konstantinos Georgarakis,
  • Keith Rogers,
  • Mark Jolly and
  • Konstantinos Salonitis

11 October 2018

The appropriate design of feeders in a rigging system is critical for ensuring efficient compensation for solidification shrinkage, thus eliminating (shrinkage-related) porosity and contributing to the production of superior quality castings. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,643 Views
9 Pages

11 October 2018

Nanobainite transformation behavior was comparably studied using in situ observations for two heat treatments: With and without partial quenching before isothermal holding at 300 °C. It was found that the prior martensite formation significantly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,653 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Superplastic Deformation Behavior of Ti-Based Alloys in the (α+β) Temperature Field

  • Ahmed O. Mosleh,
  • Anastasia V. Mikhaylovskaya,
  • Anton D. Kotov,
  • Waheed S. AbuShanab,
  • Essam B. Moustafa and
  • Vladimir K. Portnoy

11 October 2018

This paper presents the effect of temperature and strain rate on the superplastic deformation behavior of Ti-3%Mo-1%V-4%Al, Ti-4%V-6%Al, and Ti-1.8%Mn-2.5%Al alloys, which have different initial microstructures. The microstructure, before and after s...

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