Metallic and Ceramic Materials Integrity—Surface Engineering for Wear, Corrosion and Erosion Prevention (3rd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

The literature associated with this area of interest includes systematic studies of the wear behavior and phenomena responsible for the degradation of materials’ resistance. From the broad range of deterioration processes that occur, wear, corrosion and erosion are the dominant types of degradation observed in engineering materials. Even though the literature on the subject explains the general factors influencing the resistance of general materials, the continuous development of technologies for the fabrication, processing and treatment of metal-based structures demands systematic reporting on advances in the wear properties of metallic and ceramic materials. From the perspective of science and engineering, the wear of machine components must be minimized in order to improve their reliability. The engineering industry is demanding ceramic- and metal-based structures that perform well in terms of wear, corrosion and erosion environments, optimally in all. First, to manage this task, material wear mechanisms should be understood. To facilitate the selection and design of wear-resistant materials, computer simulation, numerical calculations or artificial neural networks can be employed. Therefore, papers containing experimental and numerical results combined with the effect of material properties on wear, erosion and corrosion resistance are especially encouraged.

The scientific papers contained in this Special Issue will provide new knowledge in the fields of materials science and mechanical engineering. This Special Issue will be focused on studies related to the wear, corrosion and erosion resistance and wear mechanisms of metal-based structures, ceramic materials and MMC composites: metal alloys, sinters, hardfacings, thermally sprayed deposits, thin films, composites, additive manufactured metal structures and many more.

This Special Issue is open for submissions and welcomes original research contributions and review articles highlighting recent advances and future directions in the wear, corrosion and erosion behavior of metallic and ceramic structures. The submission of papers focused on wear improvement via the modification of microstructural properties, surface layer treatment and the deposition of wear-resistant coatings onto a metal-based substrate are encouraged.

The first and second volume, entitled “Metallic and Ceramic Materials Integrity—Surface Engineering for Wear, Corrosion and Erosion Prevention”, attracted great interest from authors and readers. Therefore, we will continue to facilitate the study of this field by compiling a third volume of this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Mirosław Szala
Prof. Dr. Mariusz Walczak
Guest Editors

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