Transformation Texture and Its Prediction in Cubic and Hexagonal Metals
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 9922
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crystallographic textures that develop during phase transformation are one of the key factors to improve the plastic, elastic, magnetic, as well as electrical properties of various cubic and hexagonal metals such as steels and titanium and zirconium alloys that have been vastly used in automobile, electrical, biomedical, aerospace, atomic energy, as well as heavy industries. Since phase transformation in such materials is mostly caused by high-temperature heating processes, austenization, austempering, solution in a beta phase, etc., in situ texture measurements are difficult so that the responsible mechanisms for developing transformation texture are still a central subject in this filed. Today, modern facilities of pulsed neutrons and high energy synchrotron radiation allow us to directly observe the change of textures during phase transformation under various conditions at a time resolution even below 60 s, and thus, the mechanisms and the ways to predict transformation textures have been gradually known. This Special Issue covers all areas of experimental and theoretical research on transformation textures of metals and alloys with cubic and hexagonal lattice structures, including experiments via not only in situ measurements but also ex situ electron back scattering diffraction and conventional X-ray measurements of textures and theoretical works based on such measurements. Research on materials processed by various methods such as additive manufacturing is welcome.
Dr. Toshiro Tomida
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- phase transformation
- crystallographic texture
- transformation texture prediction
- hexagonal metals
- cubic metals
- steel
- titanium alloy
- zirconium alloy
- pulsed neutron
- synchrotron radiation
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