Cavitation Erosion, Abrasive and Sliding Wear Behaviour of Metal-Based Structures
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion and Protection".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 26295
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cavitation erosion; abrasion; tribology; failure analysis; additive manufacturing; thermal spraying; thin films; shot peening; ion implantation; hardfacing; welding; cobalt alloys; nickel alloys; cermets; metal matrix composites; stainless and structural steels; fatigue; mechanical properties; microstructure
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my honor to announce a Special Issue of Metals (IF 2.117) entitled “Cavitation Erosion, Abrasive, and Sliding Wear Behavior of Metal-Based Structures”. The Issue will include experimental or numerical papers and review manuscripts regarding advances in the wear resistance and development of metal-based structures (metallic materials). The content of this Special Issue is addressed to a broad group of scientists and engineers systematically working in the field of wear prevention of machine parts and components manufactured with metallic materials.
The literature includes systematic studies of the wear behavior and phenomena responsible for materials degradation resistance. Overall, from the broad range of the deterioration processes, tribological wear, namely sliding and abrasive wear, is the dominant type of engineering material degradation. Cavitation erosion is a unique wear process that still is not entirely understood. Even though the literature on the subject explains the general factors influencing both cavitation erosion and tribological wear of materials, the continuous development of metal-based structures fabrication, processing, and treatment technology demands systematic reporting on the advances in the wear properties of metallic materials. From both the scientific and engineering points of view, the wear of metallic components must be minimized to improve their reliability. The engineering industry is demanding metal-based structures that perform well in terms of cavitation erosion or tribological wear environments or optimally to both. First, to manage that task, material wear mechanisms should be understood. To facilitate the selection and design of wear-resistant materials, computer simulation, numerical calculations, or artificial neural networks can be employed. Therefore, papers containing the experimental and numerical results combined with the effect of material properties on the cavitation, abrasion, or sliding wear resistance are especially welcome.
This Special Issue is focused on the studies related to cavitation erosion, abrasive or sliding resistance, and wear mechanisms of metal-based structures: metal alloys, sinters, hardfacings, thermally sprayed deposits, thin films, composites, and additive manufactured metal structures, and many more. Papers focused on wear improvement via microstructural properties modification, surface layer treatment, and the deposition of wear-resistant coatings onto a metal-based substrate are encouraged. The scientific papers contained in this Special Issue will provide new knowledge in the fields of materials science and mechanical engineering.
This Special Issue is open for submissions, and welcomes original research contributions and review articles highlighting recent advances and future directions in the fields of cavitation erosion, and abrasive and sliding wear behavior of metal-based structures.
Dr. Mirosław Szala
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cavitation erosion
- Abrasion and sliding wear
- Tribology and friction
- Wear behavior and wear mechanisms
- Additive manufacturing technology
- Hardfacing and overlay welding
- Surface engineering and laser surfacing
- Thermal spraying
- PVD thin-film deposition
- Ion implantation
- Shot peening and cold working processing
- Artificial neural network
- Computational simulations
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