Characterization, Analysis, and Defects in Metallic Materials and Their Welds
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 3567
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are a wide range of engineering alloys specifically designed for demanding service conditions such as elevated temperatures or corrosive environments depending on applications (e.g., automotive, power generation, aerospace, and oil and gas). It is critical to fundamentally understand the metallurgical stability, mechanical performance, and degradation and failure mechanisms in both base metals and their welds under manufacturing and service conditions for proper materials/fillers selection, life assessment and optimization. This Special Issue invites contributions from both academia and industry to disseminate the recent development trends in characterization, modeling and analysis of microstructures, thermomechanical properties (e.g., thermal fatigue and creep), defect evolution (e.g., stress corrosion cracking and stress relaxation cracking) as well as lifetime prediction methods for engineering alloys (both ferrous and non-ferrous) and their weldments under demanding service conditions.
Dr. Zhenzhen Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermomechanical properties
- defect evolution
- lifetime prediction methods
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