Mechanical Degradation of Advanced Energy-Related Alloys: Processing, Microstructure, and Testing
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2021) | Viewed by 3453
Special Issue Editors
Interests: welding and joining; additive manufacturing; metallurgy; metallic materials; mechanical degradation; materials characterization
Interests: metallurgy; metallic materials; microstructural characterization; welding and joining; high temperature creep; corrosion
Interests: fracture in metallic materials; corrosion; materials characterization; hydrogen embrittlement; additive manufacturing; failure analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rising demand for energy and climate change crisis bring many challenges in design and manufacturing of advanced metals and alloys for electric power generation, oil/gas transportation, and hydrogen storage. Development and application of high-performance alloys remains a slow process due to a limited understanding of their mechanical degradation behaviours (i.e. creep, creep-fatigue, low fracture toughness, hydrogen embrittlement) under harsh environments (i.e. elevated temperature, low temperature, corrosive). Many advanced manufacturing technologies, including novel thermomechanical processing and additive manufacturing, have been developed and applied for improving mechanical properties and fabricating new components in multiple scales. However, highly deformed and non-uniform constituents, and rapidly solidified microstructures are usually produced by these processes. This further results in sub-optimal properties and premature failure under certain conditions. The full picture of the interactions between heterogeneous microstructure and complex mechanical conditions, and harsh service environments is still not complete and needs more fundamental studies.
I would like to invite you to submit your excellent research works to this Special Issue on “Mechanical Degradation of Advanced Energy-related Alloys: Processing, Microstructure, and Testing” in Crystals. This Special Issue of Crystals will primarily focus on gaining a deeper understanding of mechanical degradation mechanism of advanced energy-related alloys under harsh environments. Both experimental and modelling contributions as full-length research articles, short communications, and reviews are very welcome. The potential topics include, but not limited to the fields indicated in the keywords below.
Dr. Yiyu Wang
Dr. Xu Xu
Dr. Zaiqing Que
Prof. Dr. Wei Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Advanced manufacturing
- Novel analytical and testing methods
- Multi-scale metallurgical characterizations
- High temperature creep and creep-fatigue
- Low/high temperature fracture toughness
- Radiation Damages
- Hydrogen embrittlement or hydrogen induced cracking
- Testing and modelling of residual stress
- Failure analysis
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