Special issue: Thermal process modelling and simulation

International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties 3(1) 2008

• Contact mechanics modelling of surface engineered systems
• Numerical modelling of hot forming processes
• Modelling of austenitising with non-constant heating rate in hypereutectoid steels
• Transformation plasticity at different phase transformation of a through hardening bearing steel
• Numerical simulation of the thermo-elastic behaviour for textile structured ceramic matrix composite bearings
• Thermodynamic description of the systems Cd-Te, Hg-Te and Cd-Hg-Te using the model of associated liquid solution
• Measurement and numerical analysis of surface residual stresses occurring under different quenching conditions
• Effects of viscous dissipation in flow-influenced tube hydroforming
• Numerical modelling of the laser-surface interaction during laser-induced modification processes of ceramic substrates
• Characterisation of the plasma shape of the TIG welding arc
• Real-time monitoring of the laser bending process