Advances in High-Strength Materials Processing: Machining, Surface Integrity Management, and Operational Properties
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2026 | Viewed by 4365
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machining of hard-to-cut materials, e.g., stainless steel, titanium and its alloys; physical phenomena of the cutting process; shaping the geometric structure of the materials surface; friction and wear behavior of materials; cooling and lubrication conditions during machining
Interests: machining of hard-to-cut and unconventional materials, e.g., stainless steels, titanium alloys, powder metallurgy materials; physical phenomena of the cutting process; shaping the material surface texture; wear behavior of cutting tools; friction and wear behavior of the aforementioned materials and coatings; cooling and lubrication conditions during machining; plasma and laser processing conditions
Special Issue Information
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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Keywords
- high-strength and unconventional materials
- work-piece and tool coatings
- cutting and abrasive processes
- surface texture
- surface layer integrity
- friction and wear behavior
- high-performance and high-speed cutting
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