Deformation and Degradation Behavior of Alloys and Structural Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editors
Interests: failure mechanisms; mechanical testing; hydrogen embrittlement; corrosion; structural materials; neutron scattering; atomic probe microscopy; nanomaterials; additive manufacturing
Interests: mechanical testing; elasticity; structural materials; neutron and X-ray scattering and imaging; electron microscopy
Interests: mechanical properties; mechanical testing; metal forming; plasticity; processing of materials; additive manufacturing; metal cutting
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Dear Colleagues,
As industrialized societies around the world continue to develop and advance, there is an ever-increasing need for reliable and long-lasting materials. However, nothing lasts forever, and it is imperative that when designing and manufacturing materials, particularly those found in structural applications, they exhibit high failure resistance and minimal degradation effects. Over time, materials are susceptible to failure due to environmental effects such as corrosion, or mechanical effects, such as fatigue and fracture. The corrosion of materials alone represents a multitrillion-dollar toll on global GDP, which impacts infrastructure ranging from the energy sector to transportation to decarbonization. Therefore, investigating such degradation mechanisms and understanding how various microstructures affect the susceptibility of a material to failure is important for enhancing the longevity and dependability of global infrastructure.
We invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue on “Deformation and degradation behavior of alloys and structural materials” to serve as an international and multidisciplinary forum to discuss research pertaining to fatigue and fracture, residual stress, corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, mitigation, mechanical properties, microstructure characterization, and material design and processing. Scientific contributions using computational or experimental approaches to these topics are welcome.
Dr. Zachary Norris Buck
Dr. James Robert Torres
Prof. Dr. Umberto Prisco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deformation mechanisms
- fatigue and fracture
- microstructure characterization
- residual stress
- alloy design
- embrittlement
- corrosion
- phase transformation
- additive manufacturing
- X-ray and neutron scattering
- mitigation
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