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This collection covers the physical and chemical phenomena of metal surfaces, including surface modifications and treatments. It is targeted at researchers working in materials science and also at newcomers to the research field of metal surfaces and surface analysis.

Technology: general issues --- mechanical alloying --- nanocrystalline alloys --- corrosion --- polarization --- EIS --- TiAl-based alloys --- hydrogen-induced softening --- dynamic recrystallization --- cracking --- molybdenum --- nuclear fusion reactors --- laser --- surface damage --- microstructure --- bipolar electrochemistry --- erosion-corrosion --- oil and gas --- impact wear --- steel --- hardness --- toughness --- micro fatigue --- cracks --- martensitic stainless steel --- Cr segregation --- fracture --- Charpy test --- XPS --- surface analysis --- metals and alloys --- metal coatings --- AES --- SPEM --- laser micromachining --- surface texturing --- surface roughness --- biomedical engineering --- tribology --- n/a

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In the current Special Issue of Metals, we present six contributions from academia and industry. Based on their latest research developments, and achievements in their applied research field, the contributors elucidate the effect of temperature during forming operations that were closely analyzed via texture evaluation, present the opportunities that derive from microstructure and process simulation, and show how trace elements may affect critical properties in the performance of metallic materials. Bridging the gap between academia and industry, they provide all the necessary theoretical background through basic and applied research to meet the requirements for industrial application of the new and steadily optimized materials and concepts.

DC Casting --- 5182 alloy --- crystallographic texture --- hot rolling --- cold rolling --- crystallographic components --- microstructural evolution --- aluminum --- LS-DYNA --- crown --- camber --- cooling --- temperature evolution --- hot ductility --- reactor pressure vessel steel --- grain boundary segregation --- dynamic recrystallization --- grain boundary sliding --- Al-Mg-Si alloys --- phase-field --- heat-treatment --- recrystallisation --- ageing --- precipitation hardening --- micress --- thermocalc --- pearlitic steel --- cold drawing --- second-phase particles --- non-metallic inclusions --- 3104 alloy --- tensile testing --- n/a

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This collection covers the physical and chemical phenomena of metal surfaces, including surface modifications and treatments. It is targeted at researchers working in materials science and also at newcomers to the research field of metal surfaces and surface analysis.

Technology: general issues --- mechanical alloying --- nanocrystalline alloys --- corrosion --- polarization --- EIS --- TiAl-based alloys --- hydrogen-induced softening --- dynamic recrystallization --- cracking --- molybdenum --- nuclear fusion reactors --- laser --- surface damage --- microstructure --- bipolar electrochemistry --- erosion-corrosion --- oil and gas --- impact wear --- steel --- hardness --- toughness --- micro fatigue --- cracks --- martensitic stainless steel --- Cr segregation --- fracture --- Charpy test --- XPS --- surface analysis --- metals and alloys --- metal coatings --- AES --- SPEM --- laser micromachining --- surface texturing --- surface roughness --- biomedical engineering --- tribology

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This book gathers a collection of papers summarizing some of the latest developments in the thermomechanical processing of steels. The replacement of conventional rolling plus post-rolling heat treatments by integrated controlled forming and cooling strategies implies important reductions in energy consumption, increases in productivity and more compact facilities in the steel industry. The metallurgical challenges that this integration implies, though, are relevant and impressive developments that have been achieved over the last 40 years. The frequency of the development of new steel grades and processing technologies devoted to thermomechanically processed products is increasing, and their implementation is being expended to higher value added products and applications. In addition to the metallurgical peculiarities and relationships between chemical composition, process and final properties, the relevance impact of advanced characterization techniques and innovative modelling strategies provides new tools to achieve the further deployment of the TMCP technologies. The contents of the book cover low carbon microalloyed grades, ferritic stainless steels and Fe–Al–Cr alloys, medium-Mn steels, and medium carbon grades. Authors of the chapters of this "Thermomechanical Processing of Steels" book represent some of the most relevant research groups from both the steel industry and academia.

Research & information: general --- low carbon steel --- prior austenite grain boundary --- carbon segregation --- Bs temperature --- ferritic stainless steel --- plastic deformation --- dynamic strain-induced transformation --- intercritical rolling --- microalloying --- microstructure --- EBSD --- high-aluminum steel --- second phase --- phase transition --- thermodynamic calculation --- ferritic heat resistant stainless steel --- hot tensile deformation --- tensile property --- dynamic recrystallization --- flow behavior --- high Ti steels --- Nb microalloying --- recrystallization kinetics --- strain-induced precipitation --- rheological law modeling --- rolling --- microstructural and mechanical coupling --- defect reduction --- advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) --- medium-Mn steel --- phase equilibrium --- niobium-titanium microalloyed steel --- electrical resistivity --- atom probe tomography --- scanning electron microscopy --- low-carbon steel --- microalloyed --- hot torsion testing --- prior austenite --- polygonal ferrite --- bainite --- vanadium microalloying --- austenite stability --- HEXRD --- EELS --- n/a

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In the special issue related to Modelling the Deformation, Recrystallization and Microstructure-Related Properties in Metals, we presented a wide spectrum of articles dealing with modelling of microstructural aspects involved in deformation and recrystallization as well as simulation of microstructure-based and texture-based properties in various metals. The latest advances in the theoretical interpretation of mesoscopic transformations based on experimental observations were partially discussed in the current special issue. The studies dealing with the modelling of structure-property relationships are likewise analyzed in the present collection of manuscripts. The contributions in the current collection evidently demonstrate that the properties of metallic materials are microstructure dependent and therefore the thermomechanical processing (TMP) of the polycrystalline aggregates should be strictly controlled to guarantee the desired bunch of qualities. Given this, the assessment of microstructure evolution in metallic systems is of extraordinary importance. Since the trial-error approach is a time-consuming and quite expensive methodology, the materials research community tends to employ a wide spectrum of computational approaches to simulate each chain of TMP and tune the processing variables to ensure the necessary microstructural state which will provide desired performance in the final product. Although many hidden facets of various technological processes and related microstructural changes were revealed in the submitted works by employing advanced computational approaches, nevertheless, the contributions collected in this issue clearly show that further efforts are required in the field of modelling to understand the complexity of material’s world. The final goal of modelling efforts might be a development of a comprehensive model, which will be capable of describing many aspects of microstructure evolution during thermomechanical processing.

magnesium alloy --- deformation mechanisms --- plastic deformation --- polycrystal plasticity modeling --- FeMnSiCrNi alloy --- shape memory alloy --- cellular automaton --- dynamic recrystallization --- boron steel --- tailored hot stamping --- phase transition --- springback --- 300M steel --- hot processing map --- thermal compression --- microstructure evolution --- in situ experiments --- cold rolling --- deformation flow --- texture simulation --- high-strength steel --- hot stamping --- martensitic transformation --- finite element analysis --- constitutive equation --- GH4169 superalloy --- microstructure evolution simulation --- multidirectional forging --- aluminum --- cross-rolling --- texture --- earing --- Cu–Al–Ni monocrystalline alloy --- reversible martensitic transformations --- thermo-cyclic treatment under load --- physical characterization and structural characterization --- n/a --- Cu-Al-Ni monocrystalline alloy