About this Research Topic
Light metals are attractive to aerospace, automotive and other transportation applications intending to reduce weight and save energy. Understanding the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties is crucial for damage prediction of structures made of the metals. In particular, those materials are increasingly used or intended to be used for components of suffering extreme conditions, such as engine piston, fan blades and space detector, of which the materials could encounter and must survive extreme conditions including, but not limited to, high/low temperatures, high velocity impact loads and/or both. This demands continuous studies on the failure mechanism, mechanical behavior, as well as the microstructure evolution, of newly developed structural light metals under extreme conditions.
This Research Topic aims to present a collection of articles of cutting-edge researches on light metals, as regards the micro-mechanics behind the microstructure evolution, deformation and failure processed under various extreme conditions. In the state-of-the-art technologies, the effects of extreme conditions such as ultra-high temperature and high velocity loading on the mechanical response of light metals, as well as the underlying mechanisms will be uncovered. The mechanical behavior and failure mode could be quite different for structures owing to the variation of fundamental mechanisms that control the micro-plasticity or cracking of the materials, under complex loading environments. By intensive discussion and on-going studies, the underlying micro-mechanics behind light metals will be better explored, which will be beneficial to microstructure engineering of the materials for advanced properties.
Original Research articles, Reviews, and Mini-Reviews with focuses on the following topics, are welcomed for submission.
(1) Materials that exhibit extreme properties or undergo extreme processing routes;
(2) Microstructures and/or mechanical response of light metals under extreme conditions such as high temperature and impact loading;
(3) The state-of-the-art techniques on characterization of materials under extreme conditions.
(4) Theoretical and computational modeling on light metals subjected to extreme conditions
(5) A particular interest will be given to the experimental, theoretical and modeling studies on the laser melting process of light metals.
This Research Topic aims to present a collection of articles of cutting-edge researches on light metals, as regards the micro-mechanics behind the microstructure evolution, deformation and failure processed under various extreme conditions. In the state-of-the-art technologies, the effects of extreme conditions such as ultra-high temperature and high velocity loading on the mechanical response of light metals, as well as the underlying mechanisms will be uncovered. The mechanical behavior and failure mode could be quite different for structures owing to the variation of fundamental mechanisms that control the micro-plasticity or cracking of the materials, under complex loading environments. By intensive discussion and on-going studies, the underlying micro-mechanics behind light metals will be better explored, which will be beneficial to microstructure engineering of the materials for advanced properties.
Original Research articles, Reviews, and Mini-Reviews with focuses on the following topics, are welcomed for submission.
(1) Materials that exhibit extreme properties or undergo extreme processing routes;
(2) Microstructures and/or mechanical response of light metals under extreme conditions such as high temperature and impact loading;
(3) The state-of-the-art techniques on characterization of materials under extreme conditions.
(4) Theoretical and computational modeling on light metals subjected to extreme conditions
(5) A particular interest will be given to the experimental, theoretical and modeling studies on the laser melting process of light metals.
Keywords: Light metals, Microstructures, Mechanical behavior, Extreme
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