Advances in Casting and Solidification Processing (Volume II)
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 December 2022) | Viewed by 395
Special Issue Editor
Interests: raw materials; structural integrity of welded joints and additively manufactured components; welding and heat treatment simulation; cast iron; stainless steels; materials selection
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Dear Colleagues,
Casting is one of the most important shaping processes largely used and consolidated throughout the world to produce near-net shaping parts, with evident advantages compared to other manufacturing processes, including its relatively low production cost and time, allowing high ranges of thicknesses and masses, possibility to shape alloys that are only castable (cast iron or certain light alloys), highly adaptable to the requirements of mass production and, finally, the excellent bearing quality of the casted parts. However, all these advantages could be lost if the process parameters are not correctly calibrated to obtain near-defect-free casting components. In most foundries, such parameter calibration is entrusted to experience rather than real knowledge of the rules governing the solidification phenomena. A comprehensive understanding of those rules is still unknown to the academic world and represents a formidable challenge. This Special Issue aims to collect recent research works concerning casting and solidification processing in order to provide the reader with an overview of the actual knowledge regarding casting phenomena. Papers dealing with experimental, theoretical and numerical analyses of casting and solidification processing are welcome.
Given your expertise in the field, I would like to invite you to submit a manuscript for considered inclusion in the Special Issue, with a manuscript submission deadline of 31 December 2022. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s web platform using the slot activated for the Special Issue “Advances in Casting and Solidification Processing (Volume II)”. Please do not forget to “tick” the correct box accordingly. The manuscripts will undergo the standard journal review process and will be judged exclusively based on their scientific content.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Dr. Paolo Ferro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microstructure
- solidification
- defect
- modeling
- casting processes
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