Laser Treatment of Metallic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will cover the most innovative topics and strategies currently being followed in the laser treatment of metallic materials surfaces. With laser treatments, the surface properties of metallic materials can be modified, inducing phase transformations and improving mechanical properties among others, which are necessary for different applications in many industrial sectors, mainly in the aeronautical, automotive, energy, or biomedical sectors. These laser treatments can vary from heat treatments modifying the properties of steels, until modifying the surface chemical composition by laser alloying, or laser surface melting that can allow the modification to a metastable microstructure and the stabilization of different phases. Finally, the development of coatings by laser cladding can not only increase the surface properties against corrosion and wear, but also allow the recovery of the surfaces and improve their properties at the same time.

Therefore, it is not only necessary to understand the modification of the mechanical properties on the metallic materials surface, but also how the beam interacts with matter, changing the microstructure of the metallic alloys with its solidification and cooling kinetics and its relationship with the final surface properties obtained. Not only from the point of view of corrosion, oxidation, tribocorrosion, and wear but also in its surface properties regarding interaction with biological tissues for biomedical applications.

Prof. Dr. Vicente Amigó Borrás
Prof. Dr. Conrado Ramos Moreira Afonso
Guest Editors

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