The Journal of Materials Processing Technology covers the processing techniques used in manufacturing components from metals and other materials. The journal aims to publish full research papers of original, significant and rigorous work and so to contribute to increased production efficiency and improved component performance. 

Areas of interest to the journal include:
• Casting, forming and machining
• Additive processing and joining technologies
• The evolution of material properties under the specific conditions met in manufacturing processes
• Surface engineering when it relates specifically to a manufacturing process
• Design and behavior of equipment and tools 

The core interest of the journal is the processing of metals, but we also cover other materials, where the article is focused on the influence of the process on the materials, and where there are not other more appropriate dedicated journals. For example ductile forming of polymers if of interest, but the influence of polymer composition on properties is well covered in dedicated polymer journals. 

A typical article will examine the influence of process design, tool design, or process operating conditions on the properties of the material or the future performance of the equipment. Most articles combine appropriate quantitative analysis with well designed experiments. The sciences of materials, tribology and thermodynamics are well covered in other dedicated journals, so these topics are of interest to this journal only when applied specifically to give insight into the processing techniques used in manufacturing components. For example, processes for engineering surfaces are of interest, but the analysis of friction is well covered by specialised journals of wear or tribology. 

The journal's Editorial Policy defines our basis for considering submissions. Typical published articles will contribute significant new transferable knowledge in the form of (a) an innovation or (b) a new insight into material processing in the form of a transferable qualitative or quantitative explanation of a difference between experimental measurements and the predictions of existing theory. 'Transferable' knowledge applies to materials or processing conditions broader than those tested within the article. 

The Journal of Materials Processing Technology generally does not accept papers in the following areas:
• Simulation with no experimental verification and/or which gives no new insight into the process
• Experimental reports which do not provide a convincing analytical or physical explanation of observed behaviour
• Topics that properly belong to the materials science literature. Examples include the synthesis of materials, chemical experiments and studies of material composition.
• The analysis of material properties, surfaces or product performance without reference to the processing which caused them.
• Statistical methods or techniques from Artificial Intelligence which treat the process as a black box.
• The operation of equipment, without reference to materials (such as tool path design in CNC machining), or the management of factory systems. 

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Editor-in-Chief
J. Cao
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
Associate Editors
E. Budak
Sabanci University, İstanbul, Turkey
Y.W. Chung
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
A.T. Clare
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Z. Cui
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China
S. Joo Na
Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xian, China
A.A. Luo
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
M. Merklein
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
R.S. Mishra
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States
U. Reisgen
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Honorary Founding Editor
F. Travis
Editorial Board
T. Altan
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Y. Altintas
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A. Bhaduri
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India
A.R. Boccaccini, MSc, Dr.-Ing. habil.
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
K. Bouzakis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
S. Bruschi
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
T.H.C. Childs
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
C. Chua
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
M. Easton
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
G. Hirt
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
W. Huang
Northwestern Polytechnical University School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xian, China
I. M. Hutchings
University of Cambridge Saint John's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
A.I. Isayev
University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, United States
V.K. Jain
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kanpur, India
N. Kanetake
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
S. Katayama
Osaka University Joining and Welding Research Institute, Ibaraki-shi, Japan
P. Koshy
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
P. D. Lee
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
B. Liu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
K. Osakada
Osaka University, Suita, Japan
J. C. Outeiro
Arts et Metiers ParisTech - Cluny Center Bourguignon Laboratory of Materials and Processes, Cluny, France
K. Padmanabhan
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
M. Pietrzyk
AGH University of Science and Technology Department of Applied Computer Science and Modelling, Krakow, Poland
X.Y. Ruan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China
M. Torralba
University Carlos III of Madrid Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Leganes, Spain
H. Utsunomiya
Osaka University School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Materials and Manufacturing Science, Osaka, Japan
F. Vollertsen
Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology, Bremen, Germany
J. Williams
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J. Yanagimoto
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
D. Y. Yang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Honorary Past Editors-in-Chief
Julian Allwood
Erman Tekkaya
Saleem Hashmi