Advances in Machining, Surface Integrity, and Operational Properties of State-of-the-Art Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 12
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 of materials’ surface integrity; friction and wear behavior; ecological conditions for machining
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Interests: machining of up-to-date materials; physical phenomena of the cutting process; shaping the material surface integrity; friction and wear behavior of cutting tools and work-pieces; cooling and lubrication conditions under machining
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
State-of-the-art functional materials are widely used in the aerospace, automotive, defense and medical industries. Their attractive structural, mechanical, thermal and operational properties result in their use in the most demanding technical applications. At the same time, these same properties make them difficult to cut, posing significant challenges in ensuring high production efficiency, quality and reliability of machine parts.
The maximum potential of state-of-the-art materials requires in-depth research into cutting processes, the behavior of cutting tools, the optimization of machining conditions and the properties of the surface layer.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest scientific achievements in the field of state-of-the-art materials processing using cutting and grinding processes, as well as the broadly understood technological and operational integrity of the surface layer.
The scope of topics includes, among others, the following:
- The influence of cutting and grinding conditions on machinability parameters of state-of-the-art materials;
- Modern designs of cutting and abrasive tools, including coated tools, tools with modified micro-geometry or tools manufactured from advanced materials;
- Innovative cooling and lubrication strategies, such as minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), minimum quantity cooling lubrication (MQCL), high-pressure cooling, cryogenic cooling or hybrid solutions;
- Surface layer integrity characteristics, including topography changes and surface defects, micro-structure, residual stresses, etc.;
- Structural and compositional analyses of the surface layer;
- Computational modeling of cutting and grinding processes;
- Development of high-speed cutting and high-performance cutting;
- Advances in machining, surface integrity and operational properties of advanced materials friction as well as wear behavior of the machined surface and their impact on operational properties.
Dr. Kamil Leksycki
Prof. Dr. Eugene Feldshtein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- state-of-the-art materials
- coatings for workpieces and tools
- cutting and abrasive processes
- surface texture
- surface integrity
- friction and wear behavior
- high-speed and high-performance cutting
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