Advances in High-Strength Materials Processing: Machining, Surface Integrity Management, and Operational Properties

Dear Colleagues,

High-strength materials are now widespread, from medical implants to products used in aerospace, the automotive industry or marine environments. Such a wide range of applications entails the use of both steels and non-ferrous alloys, as well as unconventional materials, including ceramics, composites, multilayer alloys, etc. The main advantages of these groups of materials are their attractive structural, mechanical, thermal properties, which, in its turn, means the use of such technologies such as high-temperature thermo-mechanical processing, powder metallurgy processing, plasma or laser coating, additive manufacturing technologies, and so on. On the other hand, it is necessary to ensure the high efficiency and quality of production processes, which is not an easy task because these materials are considered to be hard to cut.

The main aims and scopes of this Special Issue are to explore the latest advancements in the following field:

• Details of chip shaping under machining of high-strength and unconventional materials;
• Physical phenomenon of cutting and abrasive processing;
• Modern designs of cutting and abrasive tools;
• The use of effective technological environments, such as near-dry cutting, minimum cooling and lubrication, high-pressure cooling, etc.;
• The impact of cutting and abrasive processing on the machined surface texture and the surface layer integrity;
• Development of high-performance and high-speed cutting;
• Friction and wear behavior of the surface machined.

Dr. Kamil Leksycki
Prof. Dr. Eugene Feldshtein
Guest Editors

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