Surface Engineering and Heat Treatment of Metals and 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 (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 831
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metallic materials; heat treatments; tribology
Interests: heat treatment; quenching; tribology and lubrication
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit a paper on any topic suitable for inclusion in the following Special Issue: “Surface Engineering and Heat Treatment of Metals and Alloys”. This Special Issue will be published in Metals, a journal run by MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals). Potential topics include, but are not limited to, general areas scientific or technological advances and current experience related to the following:
- Surface and heat treatment processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys;
- Biomaterial processing;
- Thermochemical treatment of metals;
- Quenchants and quenching technology;
- Surface hardening;
- Coatings and surface treatments;
- Surface preparation and processing;
- Applications of IT and AI in process modeling and control;
- Design and application of modeling and simulation;
- Environmental aspects in heat treatment and surface engineering;
- Cryogenic treatment;
Testing and characterization.
Prof. Dr. Lauralice Canale
Dr. George Totten
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Metals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- heat treatment
- surface engineering
- modeling and simulation
- test and characterization
- environmental
- thermochemical
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