Aluminum Alloys

Aluminium is the worlds most abundant metal and is the third most common element comprising 8% of the Earths crust. The versatility of aluminium makes it the most widely used metal after steel. By utilising various combinations of their advantageous properties such as strength lightness corrosion resistance recyclability and formability aluminium alloys are being employed in an ever-increasing number of applications. In the recent decade a rapid new development has been made in production of aluminium alloys and new techniques of casting forming welding and surface modification have been evolved to improve the structural integrity of aluminium alloys. This Special Issue covers wide scope of recent progress and new developments regarding all aspects of aluminium alloys including processing forming welding microstructure and mechanical property creep fatigue corrosion and surface behavior thermodynamics modeling and application of different aluminum alloys.