Aluminium Alloys: Microstructure, Properties, Heat Treatment, Forming and Welding
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 9803
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aluminium alloys; severe plastic deformation; microstructrure characterization; heat treatment; strength and ductility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aluminium alloys have low density and relatively high strength. With these advantages, Al alloys have been widely used in transport industry, especially automotive and aerospace. The increasing applications in Al alloys have the potential to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emission.
The main scope of this Special Issue of Metals is to reveal the relationship between the microstructures and properties of novel aluminium alloys fabricated by casting, forming, welding, plastic deformation, heat treatment, additive manufacturing and other new techniques. This Special Issue also intends to publish articles revealing fundamental theory on the strengthening, corrosion and thermodynamics of novel Al alloys during material design, fabrication and manufacturing processes. We welcome articles covering the atomic characterization of specific microstructures using advanced techniques. We invite you to contribute research works on improving the properties of aluminium alloys.
Dr. Ying Chen
Dr. Nan Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aluminium
- solute design
- characterization
- corrosion
- manufacturing
- modelling
- thermodynamics
- mechanical properties
- physical properties
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