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 Formerly: Journal of Mechanical Working Technology
Editors-in-Chief:
A.E. Tekkaya, J.M. Allwood
See editorial board for all editors information
Description
The journal covers the processing techniques used in manufacturing components from metals and other materials.
Typical articles will contribute significant new transferable knowledge in the form of process innovations or insights into the influence
of processes on materials. The journal aims to publish work of high quality in terms of originality, significance and rigour and so to
contribute to increased production efficiency and improved component performance.
Areas of interest to the journal include:
Materials:
All materials are of interest, including metals, ceramics, composites, polymers, glass and biomaterials, but the emphasis of the journal
is on the influence of processes on the materials.
Processing Techniques:
Solidification processes: including
all forms of casting, mushy-state forming and other net-shape manufacturing.
Bulk forming: rolling, drawing, forging, extrusion,
incremental bulk forming, etc.
Sheet forming: bending, stretch forming, stamping, pressing, sheet hydroforming, electro-magnetic
forming, deep drawing, ironing, spinning and flow turning, tube-hydroforming, incremental sheet forming, shot-peen forming etc.
Material
removal and separation processes: including machining, cutting, abrasion, blanking and piercing.
Joining processes:
including all forms of welding, joining by forming etc.
Powder and particle processes and rapid prototyping: compaction,
sintering, laser assisted techniques etc.
Surface processes: including deposition, modification of surface geometry and
properties
Property modification: including annealing, hardening and combined thermo-mechanical processing.
Processes
for material re-use: including material cleaning, re-shaping, separation and disassembly processes.
Recycling processes:
including secondary smelting, and novel processes.
Process Conditions:
The influence of processing temperature (cold, warm,
hot), strain rates and process scale on component characteristics and process behaviour.
Process and tool design characteristics:
The influence of tool design, tool material selection (solid, liquid, gas, segmented), workpiece claming and manipulation, actuation,
sensors and control strategies on component properties.
Analysis methods:
Analysis methods including analytical approaches,
numerical or statistical modelling and knowledge-based or semi-empirical methods applied to materials processing techniques, validated
experimentally and used for the purpose of providing significant new knowledge about process behaviour.
Materials Characterization:
Materials characterisation and testing as relevant to the understanding of the influence of processes on materials.
Issues and
motivations for process improvements:
Materials processing innovations designed to give improvements in particular areas including
reductions in cost, faster processing, faster setup and switchover, rapid prototyping, processing at different scales, energy consumption
in processing and other environmental factors.
Bibliographic & ordering information
ISSN: 0924-0136
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Commenced publication 1978
Subscriptions for the year 2008,
Volumes 195-208,
42 issues
Institutional online access: ScienceDirect eSelect
For purchase of online access to this journal on ScienceDirect.
Institutional price: Order form
USD 5,782 for all countries except Europe, Japan and Iran
JPY 686,000 for Japan
EUR 5,167 for European countries and Iran
Conditions of sale & ordering procedures, and links to our regional sales offices.
For an overview of recently-dispatched issues, see the Journal issue
dispatch dates
Audience
Mechanical engineers in universities and in industry, materials scientists.
Impact factor of this journal
2006: 0.615
Journal Citation Reports® 2007, published by Thomson Scientific
607/586
Last update: 9 May 2008
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