Development of Light Alloys with Excellent Mechanical Properties

Dear Colleagues,

Light alloys, such as aluminum and magnesium, are important engineering materials for the automobile, aircraft, and electronic industries. In recent decades, scientific and technological advancements in the materials modelling, processing and characterisation of light alloys have led to the development of unique microstructure with superb mechanical performance. This is attributed to deeper understanding of the microstructural evolution during processing and the materials behavior under applied mechanical loading. However, future transport and electronic applications require the next generation of light alloys with exceptional strength, ductility, and recyclability in order to meet the demanding needs and improve the resource efficiency. Hence, this opens excellent opportunities to explore new design concepts and perform innovative research into the interplay between microstructure and mechanical properties of light alloys. For this reason, the present Topic “Development of light alloys with excellent mechanical properties” is put forward.

This Topic aims to collect excellent research studies of light alloys from all over the world on topics including but not limited to aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, mechanical properties, microstructure, heat treatment, solidification, deformation, thermomechanical processing, precipitation, phase transformation, SEM, EBSD, FIB, TEM, DSC, X-ray diffraction, mechanical/corrosion /hardness testing, materials modelling, process simulations, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Zhirou Zhang
Prof. Dr. Isaac Chang
Topic Editors