Fusion Welding, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to prepare scientific publications on broadly understood welding technologies used to join advanced construction materials and modify the properties of surface layers in materials engineering as part of the 2nd edition of the Special Issue titled “Fusion Welding”. The welding process is still the basic technology for joining conventional and modern construction materials, ensuring high-quality joints. This process is characterized by many specific features associated with the variable temperature field and with variations in a wide range of physical and mechanical properties of the welded material. I invite you to send scientifically valuable articles for a Special Issue entitled “Fusion Welding”. Its scope is very wide and covers virtually all welding technologies, as well as monitoring, diagnostics, and process simulation. I suggest that articles are related to advanced welding methods, unconventional welding solutions or are focused on combining high-strength materials, both steel and nonferrous, as well as nanostructured. Studies on the monitoring of fusion welding processes as well as work on the computer analysis of phenomena occurring in the welded area are also welcome. I believe that the Metals journal  is a journal where it is worth publishing your research results for dissemination to a wide audience.

The scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers on the following concepts:

- Technologies for combining modern construction materials;
- Technologies for producing surface layers using welding methods;
- Modern additional materials with special functional properties;
- Use of computer methods to predict the properties of welded joints;
- Qualitative assessment of broadly understood modifications of surface layers and welded joints;
- Diagnostics of production processes;
- The use of artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of welding processes.

Prof. Dr. Jacek Górka
Guest Editor

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