Continuous Casting of Alloys with Enhanced Properties
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 4437
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electron microscopy; resistometry; phase transformations; mechanical properties of materials; intermetallic compounds; aluminum alloys; thin layers; nanomaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A combination of unconventional alloys and new casting and forming methods could improve material properties and lower financial costs and environmental burden in metallurgy. Established technologies should be modified in order to fulfill new demands on formability, hardness, high temperature resistance, corrosion properties, and other characteristics of the material. Continuous casting methods are good candidates with a high potential for an industrial production of semifinished billets, rods, slabs or strips for a further refinement. They provide relatively high solidification rates, resulting in a microstructure refinement. High solid solution supersaturation, which is substantially higher than in materials obtained by more common conventional casting methods, enables casting of alloys with a nonstandard composition, enhancing the precipitation potential. Due to a moderate plastic reduction during continuous casting, the materials possess a crystallographic texture intensity that is much lower compared to conventionally cast and multipass formed ones. On the other hand, inhomogeneity such as band structures and central segregations can be found in continuously cast alloys. Therefore, in order to fully exploit their potential, such materials should be subjected to several enhanced processing steps. These could include special heat treatments, enhanced mechanical processing, revolutionary composition of alloys, manufacturing of heterogeneous structures by diffusion bonding during continuous cladding or a combination of several abovementioned methods.
The aim of this Special Issue is to show the latest progress in the development of continuously cast metallic materials with an accent on uncommon compositions and post-processing resulting in a considerable enhancement of materials properties.
Prof. Dr. Miroslav Cieslar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- continuous casting
- metallic materials
- microstructure
- thermomechanical treatment
