Properties and Applications of Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSS)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plastic deformation; materials properties; microstructures; ultrafine-grained structures; nanostructures; additive manufacturing; cryorolling
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSSs) are characterized by selected chemical composition, final microstructures, and physical properties that can be formed in bulk or powdered steel materials.
The increase in mechanical properties of steels in the bulk state plastically deformed by different techniques at hot, cold, and cryogenic temperature conditions must be studied.
Methods for increasing mechanical properties and minimizing density of PM (powder metallurgy) steel materials processed by additive manufacturing with the application of subsequent post-processing using SPD (intensive plastic deformation) techniques or plastic deformations performed under thermal conditions, such as cryogenic temperatures, ambient temperatures, and temperatures above Ac3, with the possibility of heat treatment, must be discussed.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest works in the research and development of AHSS (bulk and PM). It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are welcome for submission.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) Material base: AHSS prepared as bulk and PM form (introduction and characterization).
(b) Experimental techniques: Controlled rolling and cooling; additive manufacturing; SPD techniques; and plastic deformations at hot, cold, and cryogenic temperatures followed by heat treatment.
(c) Strengthening mechanisms to increase mechanical properties.
(d) New trends to increase mechanical properties.
(e) Application of AHSS.
Prof. Dr. Tibor Kvačkaj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- AHSS
- bulk and PM steels
- structures with dimensions at the level of micro and nano size
- mechanical properties
- plastic deformations techniques
- deep drawing
- additive manufacturing
- SPD techniques
- heat treatment
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