Advanced Metal Surface Engineering: Enhancing Durability, Performance, and Sustainability
A special issue of Eng (ISSN 2673-4117). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 548
Special Issue Editors
Interests: surface engineering; laminar plasma quenching; laser/plasma surface treatment; rolling contact fatigue
Interests: railway track condition monitoring; track performance evaluation; wheel–rail rolling contact behavior; rolling contact fatigue and damage mechanisms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The reliable performance and prolonged service life of metallic components are critical for modern transportation, energy, and manufacturing systems. Advanced surface engineering technologies—such as laminar plasma quenching, laser/plasma surface hardening, coatings, and hybrid treatments—offer powerful strategies to tailor near-surface microstructures, enhance mechanical properties, and improve resistance to wear, rolling contact fatigue, corrosion, and impact loading.
This Special Issue on “Advanced Metal Surface Engineering: Enhancing Durability, Performance, and Sustainability” aims to provide a platform for cutting-edge research that bridges fundamental mechanisms and engineering applications. Topics of interest include novel surface treatment processes, multi-physics and multiscale modeling, microstructure–property–performance relationships, in situ/advanced characterization, and case studies on rails, gears, blades, and other critical components under complex service conditions.
We invite original research articles, reviews, and communications from academia and industry to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerate innovation in the field of surface engineering.
Dr. Kai Wang
Prof. Dr. Jingmang Xu
Dr. Yao Qian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface engineering
- laminar plasma quenching
- laser/plasma surface treatment
- rolling contact fatigue
- wear and tribological performance
- metallic components
- multiscale damage analysis
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