Heat Resistant Steels and Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

Heat-resistant steels and alloys play important roles in high-temperature applications such as fossil fuel-fired power plants, chemical plants, airplane jet engines, etc. Despite the current strong pressure to exclude fossil fuel, especially coal, power generation, it is continuously important to make efforts to improve the heat resistance and long-term properties of the materials for higher efficiency of thermal power generation systems and also to design new materials that are adaptable to new operating conditions such as high-load fluctuation and supercritical carbon dioxide power cycles. The importance of designing new alloys and in understanding degradation mechanisms for improved jet engine operations remains unchanged due to the forecasted increase in the commercial aviation market until 2038.

This Special Issue highlights recent progress and innovations in the fields of heat-resistant steels and alloys from a wide perspective, including alloy design, characterization of microstructure formation and stability, creep deformation and fracture, creep-fatigue interaction, degradation mechanisms, oxidation, and high-temperature corrosion but not excluding other topics. This Special Issue focuses on metallic materials that include creep resistant ferritic and austenitic steels, superalloys, titanium alloys, intermetallic compounds, and refractory metals. Researchers are, therefore, encouraged to submit a research paper on their recent work but also a review paper on the topics.

Prof. Dr. Satoru Kobayashi
Dr. Mikael Perrut
Guest Editors

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