Welding and Joining Technologies for Advanced Structural Alloys and Multifunctional Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 21
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to introduce this Special Issue, titled “Welding and Joining Technologies for Advanced Structural Alloys and Multifunctional Materials.”
The growing demand for high-performance materials in energy generation, storage, and conversion systems requires innovative approaches to welding, joining, and additive manufacturing. This Special Issue focuses on the welding and joining of advanced structural alloys, composites, and multifunctional materials, as well as on welding-based additive manufacturing, which has emerged as a key enabling technology for next-generation energy devices.
Topics of interest include advanced welding and joining methods for high-performance alloys and composites, welding-enabled additive manufacturing of complex energy-related components, and the critical issue of hot cracking in these materials. We particularly welcome contributions on new evaluation techniques for cracking susceptibility and computational modeling that shed light on microstructural evolution and defect formation during welding and additive processes.
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research articles and review papers that advance the science and engineering of welding, joining, and additive manufacturing for energy-related structural materials.
We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Eun−Joon Chun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advanced welding and related additive manufacturing processes
- advanced structural alloys and composite materials
- hot cracking phenomena and its testing procedures
- modeling and simulations techniques
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