Welding, Joining and Casting of Advanced Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Metallurgical processes have played a highly scientific and industrial role in materials technology since the beginning of last century. One of the most important and complicated problems in this field is obtaining materials with the required chemical composition, structure and properties.

One solution to this problem depends on progress in computer technology, modeling of real industrial processes for which there were previously unknown solutions, or these methods were so tedious that they proved to be unsuitable for practical application. The development of modeling methods for predicting the chemical composition and microstructure of the weld and cast metal, opens up the possibility of optimizing the metallurgical process in the design stage by selecting the initial materials as well as technological parameters that would ensure the materials’ required properties.

Another solution depends on the development of combined novel technologies where traditional metallurgy joins up with advanced techniques such as nanoscience. During the last decade there were more and more works dedicated to the interaction between metallic materials and nano-compounds for obtaining materials with enhanced mechanical, physical and chemical properties.

The scope of the forthcoming Special Issue will focus on recent innovative and pioneering works in the field of metallurgical processes of welding, joining and casting. Topics include, without being limited to:

• Ferrous and non-ferrous welding processes
• Advanced methods of metal joining
• Mathematical modeling of welding and build-up processes
• Casting of advanced materials
• Alloying and modification of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys

We invite our colleagues to submit a manuscript which can be in the form of a full paper, communication or a review to this Special Issue.

Prof. Michael Zinigrad
Dr. Konstantin Borodianskiy
Guest Editors

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