Microstructural Mechanisms of Damage Accumulation in Technical Alloys
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2022) | Viewed by 4972
Special Issue Editor
Interests: severe/complex mechanical loading of metals and alloys; failure analysis; sliding wear; cavitation erosion; solid-state joining; dynamic recovery and recrystallization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The mechanisms of damage and failure of metals under mechanical or combined loads have been widely studied, and high strength materials have been developed. Nevertheless, under complex load conditions frequently occurring in technical applications, unexpected material behavior or failures still occur today. Under tribological loads, chemical and microstructural alterations occur in the material, and surface properties under cyclic and multiaxial stress fields are difficult to determine or predict. echniques of severe plastic deformation, on the other hand, allow the introduction of extremely high strains, typically by shear, without inducing defects through the superposition of hydrostatic compressive stress. Understanding microstructural mechanisms of damage and strain accumulation, but also healing effects through recovery or recrystallization, allows us to understand ways in which materials may be loaded well beyond their current range of application—or clarifies in which load situations conventional material properties will overestimate a material’s performance in a given load situation.
This Special Issue focuses on research aiming at the understanding of fundamental mechanisms of materials’ reactions to potentially damaging mechanical load conditions. This encompasses the analysis of microstructural mechanisms of defect accumulation, as well as studies into targeted measures to counteract or mitigate damage accumulation on a microstructural level. Full research articles, shorter communications reporting limited but conclusive studies of a specific topic, as well as reviews are welcome.
Dr. Stefanie Hanke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wear mechanisms
- strain accumulation
- fatigue
- mechanical behavior
- microstructure
- failure mechanisms
- crack initiation
- crack propagation
- damage criteria
