Development and Applications of New Lightweighting Metal Technologies: High Strength Al and Mg Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 24815
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aerospace materials; integrated computational materials engineering (ICME); aluminum; magnesium; alloy design; solidification; heat treatment; thermodynamics; kinetics; grain refinement; precipitation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the concerns on global warming as a result of CO2 emission are increasing, vehicle lightweighting through new structural materials has become more and more important. Traditionally, metallic materials are the key components in supporting all transports. Recently, new materials such as carbon fiber-reinforced composites (CFRC) have provided better opportunities for cutting the weight of cars and buses. However, the difficulties in CFRC product certification, maintenance standardization, and connecting reliability calls for old metallic materials to cut the weight while increasing strength in order to meet the ever increasing demand. As a result, this Special Issue is focused on the development and applications of new lightweighting metal technologies with special attention given to high strength Al and Mg alloys.
Articles concerning high strength aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, and their processing and characterizations are welcome. This is an excellent opportunity for metallic materials scientists and engineers all over the world to get their latest work published on all aspects of the physical and mechanical metallurgy of lightweight alloys as well as processing technologies. Any new non-constructive testing such as computed tomography and process optimization such as multiscale modeling for evaluating the properties and aluminum and magnesium alloys for end applications, in automotive, aerospace, and marine fields are welcome. Therefore, this Special Issue will cover—but is not limited to—the following fundamental and applied research topics:
- Light-weight design;
- High Strength Al and Mg alloys;
- Alloy development;
- Nano-precipitates;
- Grain refinement;
- Plasticity mechanisms;
- In situ observation/nano- micro-CT analysis;
- Processing innovation;
- Process control;
- Phase quantification and measurements;
- Thermodynamic calculation;
- Kinetic modeling;
- Density functional theory;
- Molecular dynamics;
- Microstructure evolution;
- Non-destructive characterization;
- Defect quantification and prediction;
- Mechanical design and testing;
- Material and process modeling;
- Integrated computational materials engineering;
- Forming, joining, machining;
- Corrosion ;
- Fatigue and fracture;
- Structural applications (automotive, aerospace, ...);
- Additive manufacturing.
In keeping with the long-standing tradition of publishing the most recent and highest quality work on Special Issues of our Metals Journal, this Special Issue features a collection of manuscripts entitled “Development and Applications of New Lightweighting Metal Technologies: High Strength Al and Mg Alloys”. This issue features the finest and latest breaking articles in aluminum and magnesium alloy development from 2021 and is listed with the main indexing services, making the articles readily searchable and available on the web and citable.
Please ensure your paper is submitted on time, and thank you for your interest in the “Development and Applications of New Lightweighting Metal Technologies: High Strength Al and Mg Alloys” on Metals.
Prof. Dr. Junsheng Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- light-weight design
- high strength Al and Mg alloys
- alloy development
- nano-precipitates
- grain refinement
- plasticity mechanisms
- in situ observation/ nano- micro-CT analysis
- processing innovation
- process control
- phase quantification and measurements
- thermodynamic calculation
- kinetic modeling
- density functional theory
- molecular dynamics
- microstructure evolution
- non-destructive characterization
- defect quantification and prediction
- mechanical design and testing
- material and process modeling
- integrated computational materials engineering
- forming, joining, machining
- corrosion
- fatigue and fracture
- structural applications (automotive, aerospace, ...)
- additive manufacturing
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