Surface Engineering of Coatings and Claddings Performed by Welding Processes
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Surface Process".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2026 | Viewed by 93
Special Issue Editors
Interests: welding; corrosion and wear behavior of claddings and welds
Interests: welding processes and metallurgy; mechanical and corrosion behaviour of welded joints; surface engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, surface failures due to wear and corrosion may lead to mechanical failures and catastrophic damage in industries such as mining, steel production, metal and alloy processing, marine environments, chemical processing, and others where these properties are highly demanded. Thus, understanding the tribological behaviour, corrosion resistance, mechanical properties, and microstructural transformations of welded coatings and claddings is vital for extending the service life of components and elements applied in engineering. This helps us gain insights into advancements in the field.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances in creating protective coatings via different welding processes such as electric arc, high-energy beam, and solid-state and explosive processes. We consider contributions addressing the performance, procedures, microstructural characterization, tribological behaviour, and corrosion resistance of coatings, claddings, and the welding processes of cladded metals and their interfaces.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New processes for coating and cladding through welding;
- New materials for coating and cladding through welding;
- Metallurgy of alloys cladded through welding;
- Tribological behaviour of materials coated through welding;
- Corrosion behaviour of materials coated through welding;
- Mechanical properties and integrity of materials coated through welding.
Prof. Dr. Marco Arturo García-Rentería
Prof. Dr. Víctor Hugo López-Morelos
Prof. Dr. Francisco Fernando Curiel López
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- weld cladding and coatings
- protective materials for coating
- corrosion
- metallurgy of weld overlay claddings
- wear
- welding thermal cycle of coatings
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