Advanced Manufacturing and Joining Technologies of Aluminum and Steel Sheets

Dear Colleagues,

The tendency toward design-innovative sheet components and products strongly requires the adoption of metal alloys with outstanding mechanical performances, to go through advanced manufacturing and/or joining processes. As such, many efforts concerning nontraditional manufacturing and joining technologies have been made in recent years through the development of new technologies or the optimization of conventional techniques.

This Special Issue aims at collecting contributions about advanced manufacturing and joining technologies used to fabricate aluminum and steel sheet parts in industry (e.g., automotive, aerospace, energy industry) through high-quality manuscripts able to point out the scientific and technical advances in these fields. Contributions can include but are not limited to:

- Advanced manufacturing processes;

- Friction stir welding, friction stir spot welding, laser welding, hybrid welding, explosive welding, ultrasonic welding, mechanical riveting and clinching and other innovative joining technologies;

- Gas forming, hydroforming, incremental forming, laser forming and other innovative forming techniques;

- Optimization of traditional manufacturing and joining processes;

- Monitoring and control of advanced manufacturing and joining processes;

- Numerical simulation of manufacturing and joining processes;

- Development of innovative tools and equipment;

- Mechanical and microstructural characterization of parts and joints;

- Heat and surface treatments of aluminum and steel sheets.

Prof. Pasquale Russo Spena
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.