Heat Treatment of Engineering Materials including Steel, Magnesium, and Aluminum Alloys
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 (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 4135
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Steel, aluminum, magnesium, and their alloys are the most abundant metals in the earth's crust and are widely applied in various industries such as the construction, automotive, ship building, aerospace, and IT industries. The heat treatment of these metals, which is one of the most important manufacturing processes for achieving the various properties required for each application, is the subject of this Special Issue. Heat treatment is the process of heating and cooling materials using specific, predetermined methods to alter the physical or chemical properties of the material and to obtain the desired properties for a particular application. Heat treatment techniques include annealing, normalizing, hardening, aging, stress relieving, tempering, carburization, and nitriding. Lots of different heat treatment processes have been developed and new processes are constantly being developed to improve product properties and cost-efficiency. According to the type and process conditions of the heat treatment, a change in the microstructure of the material is induced, thereby changing the physical properties, that is, hardness, toughness, ductility, brittleness, corrosion resistance, electrical resistance, and magnetism.
This Special Issue embraces interdisciplinary work covering physical metallurgy and processes, reporting on experimental and theoretical progress concerning microstructural evolution during the heat treatment of steel, aluminum, and magnesium alloys. Research on the microstructure and property changes in these metals caused by heating and cooling incidentally generated during other processes such as welding and hot forming is included in the Special Issue, despite this topic not strictly involving direct heat treatment. Manuscripts are highly welcomed from both academic and commercial viewpoints with progressive results
Dr. Sunmi Shin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Heat treatment
- Steels
- Aluminum alloys
- Magnesium alloys
- Microstructure
- Annealing
- Aging
- Hardening
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