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 ... click here for full Aims & Scope
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.
Exclusions
The Journal of Materials Processing Technology does
not accept papers in the following areas:
• Simulation with no experimental verification and/or which gives no new insight into
the process.
• Topics that properly belong to the materials science literature. Examples include the fabrication of materials,
chemical experiments and studies of material composition.
• The analysis of material properties or product performance without
reference to the processing which caused them.
• Statistical methods or techniques from Artificial Intelligence which treat
the process as a black box.
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