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 319
Special Issue Editors
Interests: alloys; rolling; mechanical properties; microstructure
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Interests: development of rare earth metal structural materials; research on long life of metal materials under extreme service conditions
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Special Issue Information
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:
- Material design;
- Phase transformation;
- Microstructure characterization;
- Mechanical properties;
- Magnetic properties
- Computations and simulations;
- Texture analysis.
Dr. Zhengzhi Zhao
Prof. Dr. Zhigang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- TRIP
- TWIP
- QP
- TBF
- DH
- CH
- deformation
- phase transformations
- hydrogen embrittlement
- magnetic properties
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