High-Efficiency Machining of Conventional and Unconventional Metal 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 January 2026 | Viewed by 662
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machining of hard-to-cut materials, e.g., stainless steel, titanium and its alloys; physical phenomena of the cutting process; shaping the geometric structure of the materials surface; friction and wear behavior of materials; cooling and lubrication conditions during machining
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Interests: machining of hard-to-cut and unconventional materials, e.g., stainless steels, titanium alloys, powder metallurgy materials; physical phenomena of the cutting process; shaping the material surface texture; wear behavior of cutting tools; friction and wear behavior of the aforementioned materials and coatings; cooling and lubrication conditions during machining; plasma and laser processing conditions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, metallic materials, both conventional and unconventional, are widely used in many branches of industry, including the medical, aerospace, automotive, marine, and defense fields.
The wide range of applications for these material groups requires the use of both conventional steels and metal alloys (stainless steels, titanium alloys, cobalt alloys, nickel alloys, nickel–chromium superalloys, etc.) in addition to unconventional materials such as ceramics, composites, multilayer structures, and others.
While the characteristics of conventional materials are well known, the main advantages of unconventional materials include their attractive structural, mechanical, and thermal properties, as well as others, which in turn implies the use of technologies such as high-temperature thermo-mechanical machining, powder metallurgy, plasma or laser coating, and additive manufacturing technologies.
On the other hand, it is necessary to ensure the high productivity and quality of production processes, which is an extremely difficult task, since the aforementioned materials are considered difficult to cut.
The main objectives and directions of this Special Issue are to describe the latest advancements in the following:
- Details of chip shaping in cutting;
- The influence of cutting and abrasive machining conditions on the basic process characteristics;
- Contemporary issues of cutting tool and abrasive tool operating;
- The use of effective technological media, such as minimum cooling and lubrication, high-pressure lubrication, etc..;
- The impact of cutting and abrasive machining conditions on surface integrity features;
- Finish machining of additive manufacturing products;
- Development of high-performance cutting (HPC), high-speed cutting (HSC), high-speed grinding (HSG), and so on.
Dr. Kamil Leksycki
Prof. Dr. Eugene Feldshtein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-efficiency machining
- cutting
- abrasive machining
- surface texture
- additive manufacturing
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