Advanced Technology in Microalloyed Steels
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2023) | Viewed by 38953
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced high-strength steels; lightweight alloys (aluminum; titanium); lamellar metallic materials; grain refinement; phase transformation and its reverse transformation; asymmetric rolling; superplastic forming; hot/warm forming; deformation behavior; strengthening and toughening mechanisms; microstructural characterization
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Interests: microalloyed steel; precipitation; density functional theory; hydrogen embrittlement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The addition of small amounts of Nb, Ti, or V singly or in combination has been the key to producing high-strength steels at a low cost. Microalloyed steels are now commonplace in a huge variety of applications. The subject of microalloyed steels interacts significantly with many aspects of metallurgy such as strengthening mechanisms, toughness, ductility, hot working, cold working and recrystallization, non-metallic inclusions, precipitation and phase transformation, grain refinement, weldability, etc. With a view to new microalloying technologies in high-strength steels, we offer this Special Issue entitled " Frontiers in Microalloyed Steels". The purpose of this Special Issue is to organize information about the interactions between processing and microstructural development and the effect of microalloying additions to provide a basis for the control of the microstructure, and hence the properties, in microalloyed steels subjected to industrial heat treatments and hot working practices.
Dr. Minghui Cai
Dr. Shuai Tang
Dr. Shengjie Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-strength steel
- microalloying
- controlled processing
- precipitation
- phase transformation
- recrystallization
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