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The papers listed below have been personally chosen by the Editors of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions as having special significance.

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2024

The Beneficial Effect of Iron in Aluminum-Cerium-Based Cast Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Enhanced Microstructural Stability and Hardness of Multi-component Nanocrystalline Nickel Alloys Processed via Mechanical Alloying (this opens in a new tab)

Advanced Polycrystalline γ′-Strengthened CoNiCr-Based Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

Exploring the Role of Thermodynamic Parameters in Determining Zr–Cu–Al–Ag Glass-Forming Composition (this opens in a new tab)

Metastable β-Phase Ti–Nb Alloys Fabricated by Powder Metallurgy: Effect of Nb on Superelasticity and Deformation Behavior (this opens in a new tab)


2023

The Effect of Crystallographic Texture on the Constant-Stress, Constant-Heating-Rate Mechanical Test (this opens in a new tab)

A Novel Metastable Structure in Polycrystalline Metals With Extremely Fine Grains: Schwarz Crystal (this opens in a new tab)

On the Temperature-Dependence of Deformation-Induced Martensite Formation in AISI 304L Type Steel (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of Room-Temperature Pre-rolling and Pre-cryorolling on Natural Aging and Bake Hardening Response of an Al–Mg–Si Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

Incorporating Dislocation Mechanisms into a Phenomenological Cyclic Plasticity Model for Structural Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Experimental Investigation and Thermodynamic Description of the Co–Nb–Zr System (this opens in a new tab)

Creep Performance and Microstructural Characterization of Electron-Beam Welded 316LN SS-Grade 91 Steel Dissimilar Joint (this opens in a new tab)

Alloy Design for Additive Manufacturing: Early-Stage Oxidation of Nickel-Based Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

The Effect of Strain Rate on the Tensile Deformation Behavior of Single Crystal, Ni-Based Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

Comparison of Creep Mechanisms Between Co-Al-W- and CoNi-Based Single Crystal Superalloys at Low Temperature and High Stresses (this opens in a new tab)

On the Impact of an Integrated HIP Treatment on the Very High Cycle Fatigue Life of Ni-Based SX Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

On the Aging Behavior of Ti-1.0 wt pct Fe Alloy With an Equiaxed α + β Initial Microstructure (this opens in a new tab)

Deformation-Induced Planar Defects in Immm Ni2(Cr, Mo, W) Strengthened HAYNES® 244® Superalloy (this opens in a new tab)

2022

An In Situ X-ray Tomography Study on the Stress Corrosion Behavior of a Ni-Based Single-Crystal Superalloy (this opens in a new tab)

Benchmark Al-Cu Solidification Experiments in Microgravity and on Earth (this opens in a new tab)

Crystallization Kinetics on Melt Spun and HPT-Processed Zr62Cu22Al10Fe5Dy1 Metallic Glass (this opens in a new tab)

Microstructure and Crystallographic Texture in Twin-Roll Casting of AA1050 Aluminum Alloy: Simulation and Industrial Validation (this opens in a new tab)

Comparison of Microstructure Refinement in Wire-Arc Additively Manufactured Ti–6Al–2Sn–4Zr–2Mo–0.1Si and Ti–6Al–4V Built With Inter-Pass Deformation (this opens in a new tab)

Strengthening Effects at Dissimilar Metal Interfaces Created by Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (this opens in a new tab)

Kinetically Induced Fine Secondary α-Ti Phase Formation in a Novel As-Cast Titanium Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

Mechanisms of Densification and Bonding in the Ultrasonic Consolidation of Aluminum Powder (this opens in a new tab)

The Constant-Stress, Constant-Heating-Rate Test: A Novel Method for Characterizing Transient Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Materials (this opens in a new tab)

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a High Strength Ti-4Al-2Fe-3Cu Alloy Fabricated by Sintering and Hot Extrusion (this opens in a new tab)

2021

Strain Rate Dependent Ductility and Strain Hardening in Q&P Steels (this opens in a new tab)

Microstructural impact of Si and Ni during high temperature quenching and partitioning process in medium-Mn steels (this opens in a new tab)

Martensite transformation start temperature during quench and austempering in Fe-8Ni-0.2C alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Evolution of microstructure and mechanical properties of as-cast AlxCrFe2Ni2 high-entropy alloys with Al content (this opens in a new tab)

Prediction of mechanical properties of wrought aluminium alloys using feature engineering assisted machine learning approach (this opens in a new tab)

Strength of 316L stainless steel single-lap joints brazed with Ni-based metallic glass foils for corrosive environments (this opens in a new tab)

The Application of Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Investigate Precipitation Behavior in Nickel-Base Superalloys under Continuous Cooling and Heating Conditions (this opens in a new tab)

Introduction to Heterostructured Materials: A Fast Emerging Field (this opens in a new tab)

Evolution of the Microstructure of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Ti64 During Post-Build Heat Treatment (this opens in a new tab)

The Constant-Stress, Constant-Heating-Rate Test: A Novel Method for Characterizing Transient Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Materials (this opens in a new tab)
 

2020

Transient Plastic Flow and Phase Dissolution during Hot Compression of Alpha/Beta Titanium Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Utilization of waste materials for the manufacturing of better-quality wear and corrosion-resistant steels (this opens in a new tab)

Simulation of Shrinkage Porosity Formation During Alloy Solidification (this opens in a new tab)

Segmentation and Alignment of Nd2Fe14B Platelets in Nd-Cu Eutectic Alloys Using the Electromagnetic Vibration Technique (this opens in a new tab)

An in-situ diagnostic study of electromagnetic stirring effects on peritectic solidification kinetics for containerlessly processed liquid Fe-Ti alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Viewpoint on the formation and evolution of annealing twins during thermomechanical processing of FCC metals and alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Solving recent challenges for wrought Ni-base superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

Solidification of metallic alloys: Does the structure of the liquid matter? (this opens in a new tab)

An Overview of the Thermomechanical Processing of α/β Titanium Alloys: Current Status and Future Research Opportunities (this opens in a new tab)

New Opportunities in Refractory Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

2019

Magnetic Transformations and Phase Diagrams (this opens in a new tab)

Magneto-mechanical Effect on the Magnetic Properties and Microstructures in Nanocrystalline Fe-Cu-Nb-Si-B Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Thermal stability, grain growth kinetics and mechanical properties of bulk ultrafine grained AA6063/SiC composites with varying reinforcement size (this opens in a new tab)

Combined Deformation and Solidification-Driven Porosity Formation in Aluminum Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Thermal Upgrading of Nickeliferous Pyrrhotite Tailings for the Recovery of Nickel in the Form of Ferronickel Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

Model Study Of Blast Furnace Operation With Central Coke Charging (this opens in a new tab)

In situ Observation of Bainite Transformation and Simultaneous Carbon Enrichment in Austenite in Low-Alloyed TRIP Steel Using Time-of-Flight Neutron Diffraction Techniques  (this opens in a new tab)

Hydrogen desorption spectra from excess vacancy-type defects enhanced by hydrogen in tempered martensitic steel showing quasi-cleavage fracture  (this opens in a new tab)

Design and characterization of a heat-resistant ferritic steel strengthened by MX precipitates (this opens in a new tab)

On the nitrogen-induced lattice expansion of a non-stainless austenitic steel, Invar 36®, under Triode Plasma Nitriding (this opens in a new tab)

Metallurgical phase transformation and behaviour of steels under impact loading (this opens in a new tab)

Magneto-mechanical Effect on the Magnetic Properties and Microstructures in Nanocrystalline Fe-Cu-Nb-Si-B Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Evolution of microstructure during the in-situ heating of 42% cold-rolled high Mn steel (this opens in a new tab)

Tailoring grain boundary and resultant plasticity of pure iron by pulsed-electric-current treatment (this opens in a new tab)

Anisotropy of Mass Transfer During Sintering of Powder Materials with Pore-particle Structure Orientation (this opens in a new tab)

Microstructure and properties evolution of Co-Al-W-Ni-Cr superalloys by molybdenum and niobium substitutions for tungsten (this opens in a new tab)

2018

Dynamic Strain Aging Phenomena and Tensile Response of Medium-Mn TRIP steels (this opens in a new tab)

A three-stage mechanistic model for solidification cracking during welding of steel (this opens in a new tab)

Atomic species associated with the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect in superalloy 718 studied by mechanical spectroscopy (this opens in a new tab)

Influence of the Strain History on TWIP Steel Deformation Mechanisms in the Deep-Drawing Process (this opens in a new tab)

Strength and ductility with dual grain-size and texture gradients in AZ31 Mg alloy (this opens in a new tab)

The Effect of Cooling Rate on High-Temperature Precipitation in a Powder-Metallurgy, Gamma/Gamma-Prime Nickel-Base Superalloy (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of steel galvanization on the microstructure and mechanical 2 performances of planar magnetic pulse welds of aluminum and steel (this opens in a new tab)

The Influence of Annealing Temperature and Time on the Formation of δ-Phase in Additively-Manufactured Inconel 625 (this opens in a new tab)

The Influence of the Support Structure on Residual Stress and Distortion in SLM Inconel 718 Parts (this opens in a new tab)

Very High Cycle Fatigue of Ni-Based Single-Crystal Superalloys at High Temperature (this opens in a new tab)

Creep of single-crystals of nickel-base superalloys at ultra-high homologous temperature (this opens in a new tab)

The Correlation Between Intergranular Corrosion Resistance and Copper Content in the Precipitate Microstructure in an AA6005A Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

2017

Improving the Mechanical Properties of the Fusion Zone in Electron Beam Welded Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-3Cr Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Deformation Behavior of Powder Metallurgy Connecting Rod Preform During Hot Forging Based on Hot Compression and Finite Element Method Simulation (this opens in a new tab)

Microstructural Analyses Of ATI 718PLUS® Produced By Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing Process (this opens in a new tab)

Peritectic solidification path of the La(Fe,Si)13 phase in a 2 dual-phase directionally solidified La-Fe-Si magnetocaloric alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Reinforcement Size Dependence of Load Bearing Capacity in Ultra-Fine Grained Metal Matrix Composites (this opens in a new tab)

Evaluation of solid-solution hardening in several binary alloy systems using diffusion couples combined with nanoindentation (this opens in a new tab)

Formation of the Ni3Nb δ-phase in stress-relieved Inconel 625 produced via laser powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing (this opens in a new tab)

Texture Development and Material Flow Behavior during Refill Friction-Stir-Spot Welding of AlMgSc (this opens in a new tab)

Early Stages of Microstructure and Texture Evolution during Beta Annealing of Ti-6Al-4V (this opens in a new tab)

Understanding the interdependencies between composition, microstructure, and continuum variables and their influence on the fracture toughness of alpha/beta-processed Ti-6Al-4V (this opens in a new tab)

Nano-scale mechanical properties and microstructure of irradiated 2 X-750 Ni-based superalloy (this opens in a new tab)

2016

Microstructure Evolution of a Medium Manganese Steel During Thermomechanical Processing (this opens in a new tab)

Precipitation in a Ag-Containing Mg-Y-Zn Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

Toward Improving the Type IV Cracking Resistance in Cr-Mo Steel Weld Through Thermo-Mechanical Processing (this opens in a new tab)

Materials for a Non-Steady-State World (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of Process Variables on the Inertia Friction Welding of Superalloys LSHR and Mar-M247 (this opens in a new tab)

Analysis on the Deflection Angle of Columnar Dendrites of Continuous Casting Steel Billets Under the Influence of Mold Electromagnetic Stirring (this opens in a new tab)

Effects of Ga and Sn Additions on the Creep Strength and Oxidation Resistance of Near-α Ti Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Elevated Temperature Effects on the Plastic Anisotropy of an Extruded Mg-4 Wt Pct Li Alloy: Experiments and Polycrystal Modeling (this opens in a new tab)

Autonomous Filling of Grain-Boundary Cavities during Creep Loading in Fe-Mo Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

2015

Segregation-Induced Enhancement of Low Temperature Tensile Ductility in a Cast High Nitrogen Austenitic Stainless Steel Exhibiting Deformation-Induced alpha' Martensite Formation (this opens in a new tab)

Method of Estimating the Long-Term Rupture Strength of 11Cr-2W-0.4Mo-1Cu-Nb-V Steel (this opens in a new tab)

Effects of Film Stress and Geometry on Texture Evolution before and after the Martensitic Transformation in a Nanocrystalline Co Thin Film (this opens in a new tab)

Precipitation Behavior in the Heat Affected Zone of Boron Added 9Cr-3W-3Co Steel during Post Weld Heat Treatment and Creep Deformation (this opens in a new tab)

Hydrogen Embrittlement Understood (this opens in a new tab)

Dislocation Effects on the Diffraction Profiles from Nanocrystalline Domains (this opens in a new tab)

Selective Growth of Low Stored Energy Grains During delta sub-solvus Annealing in the Inconel 718 Nickel Base Superalloy (this opens in a new tab)

The High-Strain Rate Loading of Structural Biological Materials (this opens in a new tab)

Coble, Orowan Strengthening and Dislocation Climb Mechanisms in a Nb-Modified Zircaloy Cladding (this opens in a new tab)

Influence of Dynamic Compression on Phase Transformation of Martensitic NiTi Shape Memory Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

The Origin of Fracture in the I-ECAP of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy (this opens in a new tab)

The Dislocation Mechanism of Stress Corrosion Embrittlement in Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-6Mo (this opens in a new tab)

Thermal Stir Welds in Titanium (this opens in a new tab)

Bulk Diffusion-Controlled Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy with Examples for Hydrogen in Iron (this opens in a new tab)

2014

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Copper Processed by Twist Extrusion with a Reduced Twist-Line Slope  (this opens in a new tab)

A Atom Probe Study of Kappa Carbide Precipitation and the Effect of Silicon Addition (this opens in a new tab)

Effects of Oxides on Tensile and Charpy Impact Properties and Fracture Toughness in Heat Affected Zones of Oxide-containing API X80 Linepipe Steels (this opens in a new tab)

Stress-Induced Grain Growth in an Ultra-fine Grained Al Alloy  (this opens in a new tab)

Time-Dependent Crack Growth Thresholds of Ni-base Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

Measurement and Modeling of Hydrogen Environment Assisted Cracking in Monel K-500 (this opens in a new tab)

On the Modeling of the Diffraction Pattern from Metal Nanocrystals (this opens in a new tab)

Role of Nanostructure in Electrochemical Corrosion and High Temperature Oxidation:  A Review (this opens in a new tab)

Al-TiC Composites Fabricated by a Thermally Activated Reaction Process in an Al Melt Using Al-Ti-C-CuO Powder Mixtures:  Part I. Microstructural Evolution and Reaction Mechanism (this opens in a new tab)

The Computational Design of W and Co Containing Creep Resistant Steels with Barely Coarsening Laves Phase and M23C6 as the Strengthening Precipitates (this opens in a new tab)

On the Roles of Oxidation and Vaporization in Surface Microstructural Instability during Solution Heat Treatment of Ni-Base Superalloys (this opens in a new tab)

Modifications of the Response of Materials to Shock Loading by Age Hardening (this opens in a new tab)

Pore Formation upon Nitriding Iron and Iron-based Alloys: The Role of Alloying Elements and Grain Boundaries (this opens in a new tab)

Model Fe-Al Steel with Exceptional Resistance to High Temperature Coarsening:  Part I.  Coarsening Mechanism and Particle Pinning Effects (this opens in a new tab)

Deformation Mechanisms in Austenitic TRIP/TWIP Steel as a Function of Temperature (this opens in a new tab)
 

2013

Comparison Between Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Upsetting and Conventional Upsetting (this opens in a new tab)

Crystallographic Analysis of Proeutectoid Ferrite/Austenite Interface and Interphase Precipitation of Vanadium Carbide in Medium Carbon Steel (this opens in a new tab)

Bi-axial Deformation of the Magnesium Alloy AZ80 (this opens in a new tab)

Study of {1121} Twinning in alpha-Ti by EBSD and Laue Microdiffraction (this opens in a new tab)

Methods for Designing Concurrently Strengthened Severely-Deformed Age-Hardenable Aluminum Alloys by Ultrafine-Grained and Precipitation Hardenings (this opens in a new tab)

Development of Microstructures of Long-Period Stacking Ordered Structures in Mg85Y9Zn6 Alloys Annealed at 673 K Examined by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (this opens in a new tab)

Formability of Ultrafine-Grained Interstitial-Free Steels (this opens in a new tab) 

The Effect of Aging on the Relaxation of Residual Stress in Cast Aluminum (this opens in a new tab)

Time-Resolved X-Ray Microtomography Observationb of Intermetallics Formation Between Solid Fe and Liquid Al (this opens in a new tab)

High Cycle Fatigue of Cast Mg-3Nd-0.2Zn Magnesium Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of Rare Earth Additions on the Texture of Wrought Magnesium Alloys:  The Role of Grain Boundary Segregation (this opens in a new tab)

Characterizing the Local Primary Dendrite Arm Spacing in Directionally-Solidified Dendritic Microstructures (this opens in a new tab)

Phase-field Modeling of Polycrystalline Solidification: From Needle Crystals to Spherulites - a Review (this opens in a new tab)

On the Spheroidized Carbide Dissolution and Elemental Partitioning in High Carbon Bearing Steel 100Cr6 (this opens in a new tab)

Thermochemical Investigations in the System Cadmium-Praseodymium Relevant for Pyro-metallurgical Fuel Reprocessing (this opens in a new tab)
 

2012

On the Distinction Between Plasticity- and Roughness-Induced Fatigue Crack Closure (this opens in a new tab)

The Evolution of Al-Li Base Products for Aerospace and Space Applications (this opens in a new tab)

Precipitation and Hardening in Magnesium Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Gas-Solid Interactions during Non-Isothermal Heat Treatment of a High-Strength CrMnCN Austenitic Steel Powder:  Influence of Atmospheric Conditions and Heating Rate on the Densification Behavior (this opens in a new tab)

Variant Selection During Cooling Following Beta Annealing of Ti-6Al-4V Ingot Material (this opens in a new tab)

Precipitation of Nb in Ferrite after Austenite Conditioning, Part II: Strengthening Contribution in HSLA Steels (this opens in a new tab)

Reminiscences about a Nobel Prize won in Metallurgy (this opens in a new tab)

Fabrication of Porous Aluminum with Directional Pores through Continuous Casting Technique (this opens in a new tab)

Behavior of Boron in Molten Aluminum and Its Grain Refinement Mechanism (this opens in a new tab)

The Distribution of Grain Boundary Planes in Interstitial Free Steel (this opens in a new tab)

Interference Effects in Nanocrystalline Systems (this opens in a new tab)

Quantitative Characterization of Precipitate Microstructures in Metallic Alloys Using Small-Angle Scattering (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of Precipitate Shape and Habit on Mechanical Asymmetry in Magnesium Alloys (this opens in a new tab)

Ultrafine Grained Al-Mg-Sc Alloy via Friction Stir Processing (this opens in a new tab)

Applied Stress Affecting the Environmentally Assisted Cracking (this opens in a new tab)

Effect of Porosity on Deformation, Damage, and Fracture of Cast Steel (this opens in a new tab)

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