Microstructure and Characterization of Metal Matrix Composites
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Matrix Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 May 2025 | Viewed by 2687
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical properties; corrosion resistance; aluminum alloys; compounds; lightweight aspects; biomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well recognized that the trade-off between the main properties and operational parameters constitutes an important challenge in engineering applications. It is known that distinct manufacturing routes, including traditional and classical routes, as well as other innovative methods, provide different microstructural arrays. Consequently, these play important roles in the final sound material’s properties. Metal alloys or metal matrix composites constituted in situ or produced from a metal alloy, or from the use of distributed particles, have widely been used in several industrial applications. Based on this, it is highly useful to concatenate at least two properties in order to prescribe and promote their potential applications. Nowadays, both economic viability and environmentally friendly aspects also need to be analyzed and associated with the proposed performance.
In this Special Issue, a wide range of manuscripts and investigations will be discussed and presented. Microstructural characterization and its effects on the resulting properties are expected. Thus, researchers are invited to propose original investigations involving a wide variety of distinctive metal alloys and composites.
Dr. Wislei Riuper Osório
Prof. Dr. Ausdinir Danilo Bortolozo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- aluminum matrix composite
- mechanical properties
- microstructure
- alloy
- powder metallurgy
- casting
- blended composites
- compressive strength
- anisotropy properties
- manufacturing route
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