Grain Refinement of Non-ferrous 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 August 2023) | Viewed by 4384
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solidification; structure; aluminum alloys; casting processes; technology; physical effects on melts; aluminum matrix composite materials; high-entropy alloys; quality improvement; processing of melts; properties of alloys; resource saving
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nonferrous alloys are now widespread in all industries—aircraft, rocketry, shipbuilding, automotive, construction, food, etc. The scales of their production are increasing every year.
The application of alloys is due to a set of special and often unique properties possessed by one or another group of light (aluminum, magnesium, titanium, etc.) and heavy (copper, nickel, zinc, etc.) non-ferrous alloys. The required level of mechanical, operational and special properties of various non-ferrous alloys depends on their structure and phase composition, which are determined, first, by the content of various alloying components. In most non-ferrous alloys, a more ordered shape, uniform distribution and dispersed size of structural components are desirable from the point of view of achieving the desired properties of semi-finished products and products.
The technologies for producing non-ferrous alloys, as well as blanks from them and products used in industry, are very diverse. The most widespread is the traditional approach aimed at modifying the structural components of alloys with various impurity additives and special technological methods for melt processing, which, as a result, leads to the refinement of grains, eutectics, intermetallics and various phases during the formation of the structure of alloys, which in turn is accompanied by an improvement in mechanical and other properties.
In this Special Issue, we will consider various resource-efficient technologies for the production and processing of various non-ferrous cast, wrought and special alloys (including physical effects on melts, the use of modifying elements, high cooling rates, etc.), leading to the modification of their structural components and the improvement of the complex properties of blanks and products.
We invite specialists from the academic and industrial communities to participate in our Special Issue, which will allow you to share experience, bring your scientific results and outline ways to further develop research in the areas presented.
Prof. Dr. Vladislav B. Deev
Dr. Dušan Arsić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solidification
- structure
- aluminum alloys
- casting processes
- technology
- physical effects on melts
- aluminum matrix composite materials
- high-entropy alloys
- quality improvement
- processing of melts
- properties of alloys
- resource saving
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