Microstructure, Crystallography, and Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Microstructures are the building blocks used by the metallurgist to understand the behavior of metallic materials through the examination of grain morphology, orientations, dislocations, second phase particles, precipitates/intermetallics, etc. Working with the optical microscope or electron microscope (SEM, EBSD, TEM) has its advantages in terms of its cost effectiveness and level of magnification and resolution. Thermomechanical processing (TMP) of any metals or alloys is one of the necessary preliminary steps before its application. The arrangement of grains changes during the TMP, and hence it also affects the crystallographic texture. Most of the manufacturing processes, such as cold/hot deformation, additive manufacturing, welding/joining, severe plastic deformation, etc., are involved in the fabrication of a component that changes the crystallographic texture of metals and alloys. TMP also has a significant effect on the mechanical properties of the alloys. Mechanical properties such as yield strength, ductility, and micro-hardness are the important design parameters which are used by every metallurgist and mechanical engineer during the manufacturing of an engineering component for structural application. Hence, it is very important to understand the correlation between microstructural and crystallographic texture evolution with the mechanical properties of the materials for any application. 

This topics of Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

1. Welding behavior of BCC/FCC materials.
2. Plastic deformation of metals/alloys.
3. Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction (EBSD) study.
4. Crystallographic texture (micro- and macro-texture).
5. Refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCA).
6. High-entropy alloys and textures.
7. Friction stirs processing and mechanical properties.
8. Phase transformation in stainless steels.
9. Recrystallization behavior of Beta-Ti alloys.
10. Cryogenic deformation and EBSD study.
11. Nucleation and grain growth phenomena in BCC/FCC.
12. Design of new microstructures in additive manufacturing.

The above-mentioned keywords cover the various aspects of microstructure and crystallographic texture evolution. The publications in this Special Issue will give a thorough understanding of SEM, EBSD, and XRD to the scientific community.  

Dr. Aman Gupta
Dr. Gyan Shankar
Guest Editors

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• microstructure
• crystallographic texture evolution
• mechanical properties
• metallic materials
• recrystallization behavior
• texture
• recrystallization behavior
• grain growth