New Advances in Dissimilar Material Joining

Dear Colleagues,

Global trends force the industry to manufacture lighter, safer, more environmentally friendly, more performant, and cheaper products. Combining conventional materials with others or even new materials offers designers solutions where a design consisting out of one material fails. A multi-material design exploits the potential of tailored properties for each part of the component or product.

The joining of different materials is recognized as a challenge for the development of new structural components within the production industry. Multi-material design is mainly hindered by challenges in the field of joining technology. The prerequisite for the production of such multi-material components is the availability of suitable joining technologies. 

This Special Issue will provide an overview of the recent advances in the welding and joining of dissimilar materials, in terms of processing, microstructure, and mechanical properties, to provide an up-to-date overview of the current state-of-the-art and the future directions of welding and joining dissimilar materials.

The focus of the Special Issue is on, but is not limited to, non-conventional joining processes for joining metals to other metals or to non-metallic materials, such as composites, ceramics, or more advanced materials (including hybrid metal-composite materials, metal foams, etc.).

Dr. Koen Faes
Prof. Dr. Wim De Waele
Guest Editors

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