Processing and Properties of Bulk Nanostructured Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2011) | Viewed by 42572
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue mechanisms of metallic materials; mechanical properties and their correlation to microstructure; in-situ deformation; nano-crystalline /ultrafine grained materials; light metals
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Interests: Micromechanical simulation; Prediction of macroscopic materials behaviour; Dislocation dynamics; Large-scale atomistic simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The special issue focuses on the processing of metallic materials by methods of severe plastic deformation (SPD) in order to obtain ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructures. On the one hand side, emphasis is laid on new developments in severe plastic deformation techniques, including new processing methods, advances in modeling and simulation of the severe plastic deformation processes, prediction of the microstructural evolution during SPD-processing and industrial up-scaling strategies. On the other hand side, the correlation between SPD-processing parameters, the microstructure and the resulting materials properties paired with new approaches in modeling and simulation of UFG-materials behaviour are in focus of this issue. It will cover the interaction between the obtained microstructure and the mechanical properties in UFG materials, strategies to enhance the microstructural stability, new developments of tailoring/grading and functionalization of materials by SPD-processing as well as principal investigations on the deformation mechanisms in UFG materials related to SPD-processing.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Hartmaier
Dr. Heinz W. Höppel
Guest Editors
Keywords
- Bulk Nanostructured Materials
- Severe Plastic Deformation
- Ultrafine-grained / nanocrystalline materials
- (Mechanical) properties and microstructure
- Modeling and Simulation
- Up-scaling of SPD- processes