High-Strength Steels/Lightweight Steels for Deep Drawing Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2021) | Viewed by 991
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced steels; advanced high-strength steels (AHSS); innovative lightweight materials and low-density steels; thermodynamics; CALPHAD; austenite to martensite transformation; electron microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
The choice of materials has become the key element in lightweight design due to transportation growth and the increasing demand to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For automotive and aerospace applications, lightweight steel remains the material of choice, despite the competition of new materials such as polymer composites, aluminum alloys, or also magnesium alloys. Lightweight steels for deep drawing applications offer an outstanding combination of strength and ductility.
While the increase in strength of conventional high-strength steel is automatically accompanied by a decrease in elongation properties, advanced high-strength steels allow to improve the strength level without a loss of the elongation or deterioration of the sheet deep drawing potential. These steels offer to make use of steel sheets with lower thickness, resulting in important weight reduction. Another opportunity for important weight saving is decreasing steel density. The addition of alloying elements, such as Al, can decrease steel density up to 15–20%.
This Special Issue aims to address the latest research devoted to lightweight steels for deep drawing applications, especially their design, microstructure, mechanical properties, and processing. Research articles focusing on the development of environmentally-friendly and lightweight cost-effective components using lightweight steels for constructions are encouraged as well.
Prof. Dr. Ludovic Samek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innovative lightweight steels
- low-density steels
- advanced high-strength steels
- phase transformation
- strengthening mechanisms
- intermetallic phases
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