Advanced Solidification Processing and Casting Technologies
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 March 2023) | Viewed by 11207
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced solidification processing and casting technologies have been initiated to respond to the challenges imposed by the need to optimize existing processes, making them more sustainable and less expensive, via new processes for smart and high-performance materials and components, as well as by the development towards integrated materials design. High-performance metallic components can be manufactured via innovative near net shape solidification processing, involving little solid-state post-processing, which is energy-intensive, time consuming, and inevitably high cost. Although significant advances in this field have already been achieved, there are still a lot of unanswered questions as well as challenges to be met.
This Special Issue on Advanced Solidification Processing and Casting Technologies is intended to highlight the latest developments in the field by compiling a comprehensive collection of papers on various aspects of processing and technology innovation. The scope spans a wide range of processes (e.g., traditional and advanced casting, joining, liquid metal engineering) and research approaches (e.g., theoretical, experimental, computational). Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Traditional casting processes (sand casting, low- and high-pressure die casting, lost foam, investment casting, ingot casting, continuous/semi-continuous casting, remelting processes (ESR, VAR), welding and soldering, etc.);
- Advanced casting processes (centrifugal casting, squeeze casting, suction casting, thixo- and rheo-casting, reactive infiltration, rapid solidification, directional solidification, high-throughput methods, etc.);
- Modeling (new physics-based and data-based models linking materials processing, microstructure, defects, and properties; microstructure evolution, e.g., dendritic growth, globular-to-dendritic transition, columnar-to-equiaxed transition, scale bridging, etc.);
- In situ processing and monitoring (efficient use of resulting data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.);
- Innovative materials and novel alloy design.
Dr. Srdjan Milenkovic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solidification
- casting
- modeling
- processing–microstructure–properties relationship
- microstructure evolution
- in situ processing and monitoring
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