Laser Cladding Coatings: Microstructure, Properties, and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, in the aerospace, petrochemical, automotive, metallurgical, and other industries, many parts of different machines are in a high-wear, high-temperature, and high-pressure environment, and thus prone to wear and corrosion. Therefore, wear resistibility, corrosion resistibility, and stability under high temperatures need to be further improved. Today, laser cladding (LC) is widely used in the repair and strengthening of machine parts and functional coatings due to its advantages, such as low dilution rate, small heat-affected zone, and good metallurgical bonding between coating and substrate. This Special Issue focuses on “Laser Cladding Coatings: Microstructure, Properties and Applications”. The topics of interest for this Special Issue, in particular, include (but are not restricted to):

• Novel laser cladding material systems, e.g., superalloy, high-entropy alloys, amorphous alloys, gradient alloys;
• External field assisted laser cladding, e.g., ultrasonic and electromagnetic field;
• High wear-resistant, high corrosion-resistant, high temperature-oxidation-resistant and self-lubricating laser cladding coating;
• Repair and strengthening of machine parts;
• Novel laser cladding methods, e.g., extreme high-speed laser material deposition (EHLA), ultra-high-speed laser cladding or extreme high-speed laser metal deposition;
• Simulation analysis of laser cladding layer, e.g., temperature field, stress field, microstructure simulation;
• Monitoring and control of laser cladding processes, including voids, dilution rates and size of laser cladding coating. Combination of image processing and artificial intelligence methods to promote the development of laser cladding technology;
• Any other aspects of laser cladding.

Dr. Kaiming Wang
Dr. Dingding Xiang
Dr. Jiang Ju
Dr. Zhenlin Zhang
Guest Editors

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