International Journal of Metallurgy and Alloys

International Journal of Metallurgy and Alloys

International Journal of Metallurgy and Alloys [2456-5113(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2015 concerned with the recent advances in metallurgical science and different types of metallurgy processes. The journal is determined to give its readers concise reading material with a good amount of resources that are essential for developing technology and ongoing research.

• Physical Metallurgy and Structure–Property Relationships: Research on microstructure, phase constitution, crystallography, defects, grain structure, anisotropy, heterogeneity, phase transformations, and the relationships between processing, structure, and mechanical or functional properties of metals and alloys.
• Mechanical Behavior of Metals and Alloys: Studies on strength, hardness, ductility, brittleness, fracture, fatigue, creep, wear, deformation, constitutive behavior, damage tolerance, and mechanical performance under different loading and temperature conditions.
• Alloy Design and Development: Research on ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, titanium alloys, aluminium alloys, nickel-based alloys, transition-metal alloys, shape-memory alloys, hydrogen-storage alloys, and advanced alloy systems, including composition–microstructure–property optimization.
• Steel and Iron Production Technology: Studies on ironmaking, steelmaking, continuous casting, hot rolling, electric arc furnaces, blast furnace–basic oxygen furnace routes, iron ore processing, sintering, crude steel production, and low-carbon pathways for steel manufacture.
• Powder Metallurgy and Sintering: Research on powder production, compaction, sintering, spark plasma sintering, mechanical alloying, powder-based composites, porosity control, densification, and microstructural development in powder-processed metallic materials.
• Casting and Solidification: Studies on solidification mechanisms, casting defects, hot tearing, segregation, grain refinement, precipitation, thermal gradients, phase evolution, and computational or experimental analysis of casting processes.
• Welding and Joining of Metals: Research on fusion welding, friction stir welding, gas tungsten arc welding, laser welding, electron-beam joining, dissimilar-metal joining, weld metallurgy, residual stress, distortion, microstructural evolution, and joint performance.
• Additive Manufacturing of Metals: Studies on laser powder bed fusion, electron-beam powder bed fusion, selective laser melting, directed-energy deposition, process–structure–property relationships, anisotropy, porosity, defects, residual stress, and post-processing of additively manufactured metals.
• Surface Engineering and Modification: Research on shot peening, laser texturing, surface structuring, coatings, electropolishing, micro-arc oxidation, surface morphology, wettability, adhesion, friction, wear resistance, and engineered metallic surfaces.
• Corrosion Science and Corrosion Protection: Studies on uniform, localized, intergranular, galvanic, molten-salt, and high-temperature corrosion; corrosion mechanisms; electrochemical behavior; protective coatings; corrosion-resistant alloys; and service-life improvement of metallic components.
• Metal Matrix Composites and Hybrid Materials: Research on metal matrix composites, hybrid composites, reinforcement mechanisms, interfacial bonding, tribological behavior, thermal stability, mechanical properties, and processing routes for advanced composite materials.
• Extractive Metallurgy and Metal Recovery: Studies on pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrolysis, solvent extraction, bioleaching, biosorption, metal recovery from ores and secondary resources, precious-metal recovery, and purification of metallurgical feedstocks.
• Recycling, Waste Valorization, and Circular Metallurgy: Research on electronic-waste processing, recovery of critical and precious metals, metallurgical waste valorization, secondary raw materials, recycling of metallic waste, resource efficiency, and circular-economy approaches in metallurgy.
• High-Temperature Metallurgy and Thermochemical Processing: Studies on gas–solid reactions, reduction, oxidation, metallurgical coke, thermochemical kinetics, high-temperature phase stability, furnace processes, reaction mechanisms, and process optimization in extractive and physical metallurgy.
• Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics: Research on phase equilibria, diffusion, transformation kinetics, thermodynamic modeling, reaction mechanisms, kinetic analysis, process energetics, and computational prediction of metallurgical phenomena.
• Computational Metallurgy and Process Modelling: Studies using finite-element analysis, numerical simulation, artificial neural networks, machine learning, thermodynamic databases, process modeling, and other computational tools for predicting microstructure, performance, and metallurgical process behavior.
• Metals for Energy Applications: Research on metallic and alloy materials for batteries, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, electrodes, metal hydrides, high-temperature energy systems, renewable-energy infrastructure, and energy-conversion technologies.
• Biomedical Metals and Metallic Implants: Studies on biocompatible metals and alloys, corrosion and wear of implant materials, porous metallic implants, surface modification, biomechanical compatibility, nickel–titanium materials, and metallurgical design for biomedical applications.
• Mining, Mineral Processing, and Mine Safety: Research on mineral extraction, mining technology, mine automation, underground safety, ventilation, rockburst and gas-outburst prediction, mine dust, mineral-resource management, and technological approaches to safer and more sustainable mining.
• Sustainable and Emerging Metallurgical Technologies: Research on decarbonized metallurgy, hydrogen-based processing, renewable-energy integration, low-emission steelmaking, resource-efficient production, advanced manufacturing, digital metallurgy, and interdisciplinary technologies that improve metallurgical sustainability and performance.