Dear Colleagues,

Rolling and extrusion are the most widely used metal plastic processing methods with high production efficiency. After hundreds of years of development, rolling and extrusion technologies have developed into a modern metal material processing production method integrating automation, high efficiency, and high precision control of size, shape, and microstructure, and the products are widely used in various fields of national economic construction and national defense. They are developing rapidly towards the direction of green, digital, and intelligent. In recent years, with the huge demand for new high-performance products with high strength, high toughness, high processing performance, high corrosion resistance, new metal material preparation, metal plastic deformation under complex conditions, fine grain rolling and extrusion forming, continuous casting and rolling theory, and microstructure and performance control, ultra-fast cooling and other technologies are developing rapidly, presenting a new trend of interdisciplinary integration of materials, metallurgy, machinery, control, and computers.

The Special Issue invites articles reporting the latest advanced research results, aiming to promote the innovation of metal rolling and extrusion technologies, the infiltration and emergence of many scientific branches, and generation of original and disruptive technologies. Manuscripts will be welcomed from both fundamental scientific researchers and authors belonging to industrial companies involved in the field.

Prof. Dr. Jianliang Sun
Guest Editor

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• rolling
• extrusion
• plastic forming
• high-performance steel
• short process technology
• microstructure