Forming and Heat Treatment of Modern Metallic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Forming and heat treatment of metals are crucial technologies for final metallic material processing on the end of production line before incorporating them into the final products or crucial components of more and more demanding systems required for the sustainability and development and of our civilization.

Thus, the content of this Special Issue “Forming and Heat Treatment of Modern Metallic Materials” focuses not only on standard technologies, but also on new procedures and approaches verified in laboratory and operational conditions. Contributions to this issue will represent papers from the academic sphere as well as the production sphere. Topics covering the wide spectrum of various ways of production and solutions based on non-conventional approaches mostly derived from physical knowledge are welcome. Papers should provide a base for further use and extraction of introduced knowledge by scientific and technical society.

This Special Issue is open to anyone who is familiar with the current state of metal forming and/or heat treatment technologies. Papers about conventional and non-conventional technologies of metal forming, rolling processes, production of tubes, forming of aluminum alloys and heating, as important elements of every heat molding process and in the protection of active parts of forming tools, are welcome. Hardening, tempering, and annealing, as well as standard procedures of heat treatment, without which it is not possible to perform any metal forming or heat treatment, and their irreplaceable roles are also of interest. Papers exploring mathematical and physical simulation introduced processes are also welcome.

Assoc. Prof. Ján Moravec
Assoc. Prof. Karel Gryc
Guest Editors

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