Advanced Manufacturing and Processing Technology for Metallic Materials
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: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 24
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metallic materials; advanced manufacturing technology; microstructural control
Interests: high-performance iron and steel; microstructural evolution; processing; mechanical properties; service performance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic materials are the most traditional and widely used materials in industry. More and more new metallic materials have been or will be developed. Advanced manufacturing and processing technology is crucial for promoting the deeper and wider application of metallic materials in order to meet the following requirements: lightweight, high safety, and high performance. The multi-dimensional relation among microstructural evolution, processes, part structures, and application exists during manufacturing and processing, which will influence the final product quality.
In this Special Issue, research on various metallic materials is presented, including steels, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, high-temperature alloys, metal matrix composites (MMCs), and so on. Various manufacturing and processing technologies, such as stamping, rolling, casting, additive manufacturing, precision plastic forming, and so on, are covered. The content of the paper will include microstructural characterization (grain refining and strengthening mechanism, microstructural evolution characteristics), experiments (mechanical property analysis and service performance evaluation), and numerical simulation (macro- or micro- analysis for the processes). In particular, new understandings and new achievements in theory, experiment, and numerical analysis will be included in this Special Issue.
Dr. Xiaodong Li
Prof. Dr. Ying Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metallic materials
- manufacturing and processing
- microstructure
- simulation
- application
- mechanical properties
- service performance
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