Books by Keyword: Corrosion Behaviour

Description: The special edition highlights recent research in properties analysis of advanced alloys and steel, and highlights their expanding role in sustainable technologies. The articles address high-entropy alloys, shape memory alloys, and carbon structural steel, focusing on their mechanical properties, corrosion behaviour, and machinability using electric discharge machining. Beyond structural metals, the edition explores processes in biomass processing, waste recycling, and pollutant removal, underscoring the importance of environmental and resource recovery solutions. This edition presents a multidisciplinary perspective on the development of advanced structural materials and technologies for environmental protection, with a focus on sustainability.

Description: This book contains the full text papers abstracts of which were presented at THERMEC 2025, the 13th International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials, held between June 30 and July 04, 2025, in Tours, France, under the co-sponsorship of the University of Tours and the University of Lille and also under the auspices of professional organizations from Japan, Korea, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Austria, India, and Canada. The Conference brought together researchers and engineers-technologists whose professional activities relate to various aspects of processing, fabrication, structure-property evaluation, and the applications of both ferrous and nonferrous materials, including biomaterials, innovative materials, and advanced characterisation techniques.

Description: This special edition presents research results on the properties and processing technologies of structural materials such as steel, alloys, polymers and composites. The issue will interest many specialists whose activity is related to metallurgy, machinery, and materials science.

Description: Advanced Materials and Processing are important areas of research in Engineering Science and Technology, and require a critical focus on bridging the gap between researchers and engineers. Advanced materials and processing play an increasingly important role in the global economy and in daily life. Researchers and engineers strive to develop new devices and processes, using mathematical and analytical tools to create technologies to handle the rapidly expanding range of materials and manufacturing processes. The Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies conference series creates a stimulating environment for the research collaboration of scholars at the local, national and international levels, contributes to the collective development of a knowledge-based society and economy.

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All components and mechanical parts have surfaces which are either exposed to a particular environment or are in contact with other components. Consequent corrosion and/or wear of the surface may then lead to destructive failure. A so-called “bad” surface is a favoured spot for crack initiation, resulting in a decrease in the fatigue, tensile properties and even toughness of materials. Although the development of new materials can improve the surface properties, this can also lead to a change in the properties of the substrate. For example, increasing the carbon content significantly improves the wear resistance of steels, but toughness has to be sacrificed. Increased cost is another major concern. Moreover, for some components, such as gears, a ductile substrate and a hard surface are required. In this case, surface treatment remains the only choice. Surface modification, also termed surface treatment, has thus been recognised as being a major emergent manufacturing technology for improving the surface properties, with minimal alteration of the substrate.