Heat and Surface Treatments of Metallic Materials and Their Welded Joints
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2485
Special Issue Editors
Interests: friction stir welding; aluminum alloys; mechanical behavior of materials; microstructure; fatigue
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Interests: welding; surface treatment; heat treatment; surface quality assessment
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Interests: fracture mechanics; transport; surface defect detection; corrosion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The properties of an element’s surface strongly affect its behavior during cyclic loading and operating in an aggressive environment or highly abrasive conditions. In many cases, it is the quality of a surface that determines a failure, which can be avoided by its appropriate modification. The industry of the XXI century provides a large arsenal of surface treatments, including machining, chemical treatment, thermal spraying, peening, hardfacing, and many others. Additionally, considering the metallic materials, their welded joints are often the weakest point of construction, and the battle for their quality decides a load-carrier capability of an entire structure. Their fatigue performance can be improved by post-processing, e.g., shot or laser peening, which increases mechanical properties of a surface in a heat-affected zone and generates compressive residual stress, limiting fatigue crack propagation. The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original reviews and research articles from a wide range of research fields involving heat treatment, surface treatment, and post-processing of metallic materials and their welded joints.
It is our great honor to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue that provides an excellent opportunity for those who are working within these fields, paving the way for the further advancement of technical civilization.
Dr. Robert Kosturek
Prof. Dr. Janette Brezinová
Prof. Dr. Pavlo Maruschak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heat treatment
- surface treatment
- welding
- post-processing
- metallic materials
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