Design and Development of Al Alloys and Composites
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 984
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Al alloys and composites; grain refinement; casting; materials properties; solidification
Interests: Al alloys and composites; solidification and casting; grain refinement and homogenization; materials properties
Interests: aluminium alloys; modification; physical properites; stengthening and toughening
Interests: intermetallic alloys; powder metallurgy; mechanical alloying; microscopy; titanium alloys; aluminium alloys
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aluminium is an extremely versatile metal with plenty of advantages, including light weight, corrosion resistance, mechanical property, electrical and thermal conductivity, recyclability, etc., and it can be manufactured into a variety of shapes suitable for a range of applications. With great contributions from research institutes and manufacturing industries, a deeper and deeper understanding with a wider and wider range of achievements have been obtained in the field of composition design, manufacturing process, and microstructure characterisation, and we realise the properties of Al could be tailored based on the relationship between microstructure and properties. Therefore, further understanding in both the fundamental and practical aspects via multidisciplinary research is meaningful and necessary to explore the potentials of Al alloys and composites.
We invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue on the design and development of Al alloys and composites, which is intended to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of materials design, manufacturing technology, solidification behavior, microstructure characterization, simulation, and machine learning in research and development of materials, to inspire the innovation in Al alloys and composites.
The potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Materials design of Al alloys and composites;
- Manufacturing process;
- Nucleation and grain growth;
- Microstructure characterisation via X-ray synchrotron, computed tomography (CT), and other advanced techniques;
- The relationship between microstructure and mechanical and physical properties;
- Machine learning in materials design and microstructure characterisation.
Dr. Yijie Zhang
Prof. Dr. Zhifeng Zhang
Prof. Dr. Zhiming Shi
Dr. Anna Knaislová
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Materials design
- Manufacturing process
- Metal matrix composites
- Microstructure characterisation
- Machine learning and simulation
- Material properties.
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