Advanced Multiphase Steels
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 (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 22054
Special Issue Editor
Interests: steels; thermomechanical treatments; complex microstructures; mechanical behavior; microstructure physical and numerical modelling; electron microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
We are currently experiencing an increasingly fast development of new steel grades with complex multiphasic microstructures that are attempting to give tailored answers to the industrial demands. The combination of the dissimilar mechanical properties of the phases gives rise to a great variety of mechanical responses, which draws the attention of the academia and industrial communities. Those mechanical properties can be tuned with the help of ad-hoc alloying and processing strategies. However, the state of the art on the relationships among properties/processing/microstructure reveals that our knowledge is far from being complete when two or more phases are involved. The need for improved microstructural/mechanical characterization techniques, simulations, and models to characterize, understand, and predict the phase transformation and the mechanical behavior of multiphase steels, under either monotonous strain conditions or complex stress states, is of key significance to achieve optimized solutions.
For this Special Issue on “Advanced Multiphase Steels”, I would like to cordially invite all researchers from the steel industry and research groups to submit their latest developments and achievements in this field with the aim of casting more light on the abovementioned aspects related to these challenging and fascinating steels. Works that focus on physical metallurgy, new characterization techniques, and mechanical performance are especially encouraged
Dr. Denis Jorge-Badiola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanical properties
- phase transformation
- alloy design
- microstructural characterization and optimization
- processing optimization
- physical and numerical simulations
- damage
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