Heat Treatment of Metallic Materials in Modern Industry
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 18764
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Interests: intermetallic alloys; powder metallurgy; titanium alloys; aluminum alloys; mechanical alloying; spark plasma sintering; high-entropy alloys
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Interests: heat treatment of metals; thermochemical treatments; physical vapor deposition; microstructural analyses; microstructure–properties relationships
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metals are the most widely used materials in various branches of the modern industry. For proper functionality of components made of metallic materials, the components must be subjected to different heat, thermochemical or surface treatments. For these purposes, a variety of equipment, such as industrial furnaces, laser generators, electron beam, physical vapor deposition devices, 3D printers, and others, are used. Thermal or thermochemical treatments evoke changes in bulk or superficial microstructures of metals and thereby modify their properties. Changes in both the microstructures and properties of metallic materials should be carefully controlled. Different techniques and devices such as light, electron, or confocal microscopes, hardness testers, and machines for wear and mechanical properties testing are utilized in order to evaluate these alterations.
Dr. Pavel Novak
Dr. Peter Jurči
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heat treatment
- metallic materials
- thermochemical treatment
- steels
- nonferrous alloys
- microstructure
- mechanical properties
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