Advances in High-Strength Steels: Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 39
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced high-strength steels; green manufacturing processes of steels; oxidation behavior in steels; nanostructured steels
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-strength steels are key materials in transportation, deep-sea exploration, aerospace, advanced manufacture, national defense and military industries, fulfilling critical demands for lightweight, safety enhancement, extreme service environment and special performance of large-scale equipment. They cover a wide range of fields, including automobile steel (hot-stamped steel, dual phase steel, transformation-induced plasticity steel, quenching and partitioning steel, medium-Mn steel, etc.), armor steel, wear-resistant steel, spring steel, maraging steel, etc. In recent decades, with the great advancement in the development and design of new types of high-strength steels, more novel materials and their application have been explored in the research. The previous researches mainly focus on the optimization of composition-processing-microstructure-properties relationship, trade-off relationship of strength and ductility (or toughness), simultaneous enhancement of strength-ductility combination and other properties (oxidation resistance, bulletproof property, etc.), service performance (fatigue property, corrosion property, wear-resisting property, hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility, etc.) and application performance (formability, welding property, etc.).
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide the readership of Metals with the most up-to-date research of the microstructure, mechanical properties and applications of high-strength steels. The interests will cover but not be limited to the research topics of composition design, processing method, microstructure control, mechanical properties, forming processes, strength-ductility mechanism, welding property, service performance and applications of high-strength steels. Manuscripts will be welcomed from both fundamental scientific researchers and authors belonging to industrial companies involved in the field.
Dr. Hesong Wang
Dr. Qing Yuan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-strength steels
- composition design
- processing method
- microstructure control
- mechanical properties
- service performance
- applications
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