Surface Integrity, Surface Properties, and Fatigue Performance of Coated Metallic Materials
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2026 | Viewed by 290
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Light metals are commonly used materials for lightweight structures of transportation equipment such as airplanes, automobiles, high-speed trains, and ships. Coating is the key to ensuring reliable service of lightweight structural components. The surface integrity, defects, and interface connection characteristics between the coating and the substrate will affect the surface properties and fatigue performance of the coated metallic materials. Exploring the internal relationship between coating preparation process–surface integrity and defect–performance is an important problem to be solved to promote the lightweight process of transportation equipment. The purpose of this issue is to publish the latest and original research results on lightweight materials with coatings. The methods of surface integrity and defect control and optimization of surface properties and fatigue performance of coated lightweight materials are presented. It provides the theoretical and methodological basis for solving the issues of the weight of transportation equipment.
This scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers in the following concepts:
- The latest development of coating technology considering the surface properties and fatigue performance of lightweight materials;
- The latest development of pre-treatment and post-treatment methods of coated lightweight materials;
- Control mechanism of coating process on surface integrity and defects;
- The influence mechanism of coating surface integrity, defects, and interface connection characteristics on surface properties and fatigue performance;
- The constitutive relationship between coating and substrate;
- Optimization method for coating preparation process;
- Optimization methods for surface properties and fatigue performance of coated lightweight materials
Dr. Weibing Dai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface integrity
- coating
- lightweight materials
- surface properties
- fatigue performance
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