Novel Insights into Surface Integrity in Metal Machining

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on “Novel Insights into Surface Integrity in Metal Machining”. Surface integrity describes the condition of the surface and subsurface layer generated by machining, including topography, microstructure and residual stresses. It strongly affects fatigue life, wear, corrosion and dimensional accuracy of machined components such as cutting tools, dies, aero-engine and powertrain parts, especially for modern alloys and metal matrix composites produced by high-energy-field processes such as spark plasma sintering and laser cladding.

This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances on how machining parameters, tool conditions and workpiece materials influence surface and subsurface states, and how surface integrity can be evaluated and controlled to improve the service performance and reliability of engineering components and tools.

For this Special Issue, original research articles and review papers are welcome. Suggested themes include machining of metals and metal matrix composites; cutting and grinding of tools and parts made by spark plasma sintering and other high-energy-field consolidation routes; experimental and numerical methods for surface integrity characterization and modelling; and process strategies for enhancing fatigue, wear and corrosion behaviour of machined components. We look forward to receiving your valuable ontributions.

Prof. Dr. Guoxing Liang
Guest Editor

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