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Advanced High-Performance Steels: From Fundamental to Applications

A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 768

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhengzhi Zhao

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Collaborative Innovation Center of Steel Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: alloys; rolling; mechanical properties; microstructure
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Prof. Dr. Zhigang Wang

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Materials Metallurgy and Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China
Interests: development of rare earth metal structural materials; research on long life of metal materials under extreme service conditions
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue highlights recent advancements in automotive steels, focusing on Advanced High-Strength Steels (AHSSs) and electrical steels for new energy vehicles (NEVs). AHSSs enable the manufacturing of lightweight, cost-effective components with enhanced safety and environmental performance, and their mechanical properties are governed by their phase composition, microstructure distribution, and metastable phase stability. Additionally, we emphasize critical developments in electrical steels for NEV applications, including high-efficiency non-oriented grades with optimized core loss, thin-gauge silicon steels for high-frequency motor operation, and novel processing techniques for enhancing magnetic properties while maintaining mechanical strength. This Special Issue also serves as a forum for researchers to interact with one another. We invite authors to submit original research articles as well as review articles focusing on novel developments in steel design and on new insights regarding processing–microstructure–property relationships in steels.

Topics that might be considered include, but are not limited to:

  1. Material design;
  2. Phase transformation;
  3. Microstructure characterization;
  4. Mechanical properties;
  5. Magnetic properties
  6. Computations and simulations;
  7. Texture analysis.

Dr. Zhengzhi Zhao
Prof. Dr. Zhigang Wang
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Keywords

  • TRIP
  • TWIP
  • QP
  • TBF
  • DH
  • CH
  • deformation
  • phase transformations
  • hydrogen embrittlement
  • magnetic properties

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Sustainable Combined Process for Improving Surface Integrity and Fatigue Strength of Heat-Treated 42CrMo4 Steel Shafts and Axles
by Jordan Maximov, Galya Duncheva, Angel Anchev, Vladimir Dunchev, Kalin Anastasov and Mariana Ichkova
Metals 2025, 15(7), 755; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15070755 - 4 Jul 2025
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The main goal of this study is to develop an optimized sustainable combined process, including sequential dry hard turning and dry smoothing diamond burnishing (DB), to improve the surface integrity (SI) and fatigue limit of heat-treated 42CrMo4 steel shafts and axles. A holistic [...] Read more.
The main goal of this study is to develop an optimized sustainable combined process, including sequential dry hard turning and dry smoothing diamond burnishing (DB), to improve the surface integrity (SI) and fatigue limit of heat-treated 42CrMo4 steel shafts and axles. A holistic approach was used based on a two-stage study: (1) optimization of dry hard turning under an average roughness Ra criterion and (2) selection of a suitable dry DB from three alternative DB processes, implemented with burnishing forces of 50, 100, and 150 N. With increasing burnishing force, the average roughness of Ra decreases, the microhardness increases, and the surface axial residual stresses increase in absolute value. However, the fatigue limit decreases, and at burnishing forces of 100 and 150 N, the fatigue limit is smaller than that obtained via the previous turning. The sustainable combined process achieves greater SI than consecutively applied conventional turning and DB under flood lubrication conditions. Dry DB at a force of 50 N increases the rotating bending fatigue limit by 20 MPa and the fatigue life by a factor of more than 70 compared to the previous dry turning. Full article
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Effect of Aluminum Content on Solidification Process and Microsegregation of δ-TRIP Steel
by Rudong Wang, Yanhui Sun and Heng Cui
Metals 2025, 15(6), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15060587 - 25 May 2025
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As a third-generation advanced high-strength steel (AHSS), δ-TRIP steel exhibits the characteristics of high strength, high plasticity, and low density. However, the addition of Al to steel will affect solidification and segregation, which may impact the final microstructure and mechanical properties of the [...] Read more.
As a third-generation advanced high-strength steel (AHSS), δ-TRIP steel exhibits the characteristics of high strength, high plasticity, and low density. However, the addition of Al to steel will affect solidification and segregation, which may impact the final microstructure and mechanical properties of the product. In this study, thermodynamic calculations and microsegregation model analysis were employed to investigate the effects of Al addition on the solidification path, peritectic reaction range, equilibrium partition coefficients, and microsegregation behavior of δ-TRIP steel. The results show that with an increase in the Al content, the carbon content range in which δ ferrite is retained without complete transformation during the solid-state phase transition becomes broader. Simultaneously, the carbon concentration range of the peritectic zone expands. The segregation of the C, Si, Mn, P, and S elements increases with increasing Al content, whereas the segregation of Al decreases as the Al content increases. Under non-equilibrium solidification conditions, unlike equilibrium solidification, the temperature difference between the solid and liquid phases initially increases, then decreases, and subsequently levels off with further Al addition. This study provides information for the composition design and production process optimization of δ-TRIP steel, and the research results can provide a reference for similar high-aluminum, low-density steels. Full article
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