Meet the editors

Ashutosh Sharma is currently working in the Department of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, which is a premier institute of India. His research interests include electrochemical deposition, lead-free soldering and brazing, additive manufacturing, high entropy alloys, gas

sensors, and transparent nanoheaters. Dr. Sharma is a life member of various scientific and professional bodies. In a very short time, he has contributed more than 100 international journals, 14 patents, 3 book chapters, and 1 authored book so far. Recently, he was awarded the Extraction and Processing Division (EPD) Award by The Minerals, Metals and Materials (TMS, USA) in 2016 in recognition of his outstanding research in the area of nonferrous materials processing.

Zoia Duriagina , Sc.D., Prof., Head of the Department of Applied Materials Science and Materials Engineering, NULP, Ukraine. She is a professor, dr.hab. of the Lublin Catholic University, Poland. Her scientific and research interests include: stainless steels and functional alloys, surface engineering: application of functional coatings, creating new thermoelectric materials, and investigation the properties of Ti-powders alloys. She

has authored and co-authored 268 scientific publications, including 52 articles in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (Author ID: 6507291021, http:// orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-3849, h-index:6), 8 scientific monographs, 4 textbooks, and 16 patents. Awards received included the Golden Medal of Scientific Society of Materials Science and Diploma of International expert in the field of materials science, China. Sh is a member of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine and a member of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar has been working as a senior postdoc researcher in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Interfaces and Precipitation Engineering at IMST, TU Wien, Austria, since 2018. He also worked as a postdoc researcher from 2017 to 2018 on an FWF project at the Institute of Materials Science, Forming and Joining, TU Graz, Austria. He obtained his MTech (2012) and PhD (2017) degrees in the field of Welding Metallurgy from

IIT Roorkee, India, and his BTech (2009) degree in Mechanical Engineering from AKGEC GZB UPTU, Lucknow, India. His primary research interest is physical metallurgy, e.g. physical simulation studies for welding, thermomechanical processing of materials, new alloy design, microstructure-properties correlation, heat treatments, kinetic precipitation of materials, and OpenPhase field modeling, etc. He has published 29 papers in reputed international journals, conferences, and books.

Contents

**Section 1**

for Industries and Medicals

Evolution of Micro-Alloyed Steel

Phase Transformation in Micro-Alloyed Steels *by Fahim Khan and Hossain M. M. A. Rashed*

*by Sanjeev Kumar*

on Stainless Steels

by Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser *by Kelvii Wei Guo*

*by Miklós Tisza*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Fundamentals of Engineering Steels **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 39**

Advanced Lightweight Steels **55**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 101**

Integrated Manufacturing of Fine-Grained Stainless Steels

Isothermal Transformation Behavior and Microstructural

Technologies of High-Temperature Insulating Coatings

*by Zoia Duriagina, Taras Kovbasyuk, Volodymyr Kulyk,* 

Morphology Evolution of DF2 (AISI-O1) Surface Micromachined

Development of Lightweight Steels for Automotive Applications

*Andriy Trostianchyn and Tetiana Tepla*

*by Tatsuhiko Aizawa, Tomomi Shiratori and Takafumi Komatsu*
