Research and Development in the World Foundry Engineering: Materials, Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Foundry engineering is still a strongly developing field of material science and an important branch of the production of metallic materials in the world. In this branch are realized a lot of novel and innovative studies within a framework of research and development works. The results of these studies are published in high-range journals such as Materials and the papers concerning foundry engineering are very popular and usable for many academic scientists and engineering work in many industries. Therefore, given the great potential for development in this field of science and industry, I invite you to submit your valuable articles to this Special Issue entitled “Research and Development in the World Foundry Engineering: Materials, Properties and Applications”, published in the journal Materials. This Special Issue is a continuation of previously published by MDPI with me as Guest Editor the book entitled “Novel Material and Technological Solutions in Foundry Engineering”, ISBN 978-3-0365-4394-9. The scope of this new Special Issue is focused on traditional cast materials such as ferrous alloys, i.e., cast steel or cast iron, and nonferrous metals alloys, i.e., Al, Cu, Mg, Zn and others, as well as bimetallic and composite castings manufactured using different technologies, for example, gravity casting, pressure casting, semi-solid casting, squeeze casting, continuous casting and others.

Once again, I cordially invite you to submit your original research papers or review articles that describe the current state of the art within the scope of this Special Issue “Research and Development in the World Foundry Engineering: Materials, Properties and Applications”.

Prof. Dr. Tomasz Wróbel
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ramadan
Guest Editors

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