Lightweight Alloys for Aerospace Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 12609
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Interests: materials characterizations; X-ray diffraction; scanning electron microscopy
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Interests: the materials for aerospace applications; the structure of liquid metals; solidification; welding; the indentation tests
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The strong competition in the industrial aerospace sector pushes towards the production of aircrafts with reduced operating costs through an extended service life, better fuel efficiency, and increased payload and flight range. In this perspective, there is an increasing demand of new materials and/or materials with improved characteristics to reduce the weight of mechanical components and structures; thus, lightweight alloys and their composites play a key role.
Light metal alloys are largely used in the structural parts of aircrafts and cold sections of engines (fan, compressor, and casing). In recent years, breakthrough advancements have been made for improving the mechanical performances and corrosion resistance of aluminum, magnesium, and titanium alloys by means of composition tailoring, grain refinement, precipitation of second phases, and control of microstructural features on a nanoscale.
Moreover, the sustainable technological development has become a dominant paradigm today and imposes an optimized use of resources, a lower energetic impact of industrial processes, and new tasks for materials and products.
New results are continuously published in the scientific literature. The Special Issue aims to collect both review and research papers from academic and industrial investigators focused on recent advancements in lightweight alloys, novel processes, and testing methods for aerospace applications. We hope this could be a way to stimulate fruitful networking on an international scale and cooperation among authors and readers operating in this research area.
Dr. Alessandra Varone
Prof. Dr. Roberto Montanari
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Light alloys
- Aerospace
- Mechanical properties
- Corrosion resistance
- Testing methods
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