Surface Strengthening of Engineering Materials
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 (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4442
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-performance steel; surface engineering; advanced manufacturing; bearing steel
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The surface condition of engineering materials plays an important role in their physical and/or chemical properties, such as fatigue, wear, biocompatibility, and corrosion. In recent years, surface strengthening of engineering materials has rapidly expanded as the demand for improved materials has increased. The commonly used surface strengthening techniques can be categorized into chemical or physical methods, such as nitriding, carburizing, shot peening, ion implanting, and laser peening. The surface properties of engineering material can be strengthened or improved by modifying its surface chemical composition, generating heterogeneous nano-grained structure, and/or introducing high-level residual compressive stress. In this Special Issue, we will be focusing on the surface strengthening of engineering materials used in transportation, aerospace, nuclear engineering, etc., which could benefit scientists and engineers in the related research fields.
The Special Issue scope embraces the fundamental understanding, advanced characterization and/or modeling, and technical applications of surface strengthening on engineering materials (ceramics, metals, alloys, polymers, and composites). Correspondingly, we intend to solicit research and review articles that cover a wide range of recent progress in the interdisciplinary field of developing surface strengthening techniques, including fundamental physics, technical innovations, characterizations of materials properties, the roles of defects of various kinds on their materials properties, their mechanical, electrical, and biomedical applications, and their scale-up. Articles on theoretical, computational, and experimental studies are equally welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Fundamental understanding of strengthening mechanisms;
- Innovation in surface strengthening techniques;
- Modeling and/or measurement of materials properties;
- Mechanical, thermal, chemical, and biological applications;
- Scale-up and commercialization.
Prof. Dr. Fei Yin
Dr. Rong Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface strengthening
- engineering materials
- mechanical strength
- metal forming
- wear
- fatigue
- corrosion
- alloy design
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