Surface Engineering of Steels
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion and Protection".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 514
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surface engineering; plasma nitriding; plasma carburizing; expanded austenite; expanded ferrite; expanded martensite
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Dear Colleagues,
The surface engineering of steels has become a valuable tool today for improving performance, extending the life, and also enhancing the appearance of components used in many fields. Modifying the surface and the near-surface regions of materials allows increasing corrosion resistance, tribological properties, and fatigue resistance, changing wetting behavior, enhancing biocompatibility, and modulating electric and magnetic properties. Surface modification spans from finishing processes, such as electrolytic polishing (EP), electrolytic plasma polishing (EPP), and micro- or nano-texturing, to coating processes, such as traditional plating and electroplating processes, physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), plasma spray and electrolytic oxidation, and diffusion processes, such as nitriding, carburizing, nitrocarburizing, and carbonitriding, improved using plasma or ion implantation techniques. Surface alloying with nitrogen and/or carbon is a well-known industrial practice, and it has been extended from low alloy steels and tool steels to stainless steels using low temperature treatments, which produce supersaturated solid solutions, known as expanded austenite–S phase, expanded martensite and expanded ferrite, widely studied in recent years. Further improvement of the surface properties has been achieved combining different treatments, such as in duplex treatments.
This Special Issue aims to stimulate researchers worldwide to share their studies on the surface engineering of steels, from the employed treatment processes to the characteristics and properties of the obtained modified surfaces. For this purpose, original research articles, review articles, and significant preliminary communications are invited, related to both experimental and theoretical studies.
Prof. Dr. Francesca Borgioli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface engineering
- steel
- stainless steel
- nitriding
- carburizing
- PVD
- CVD
- plasma spray
- electrolytic plasma polishing
- texturing
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