Advances in Materials Joining and Additive Manufacturing (Volume II)

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasingly potent energy problem, the modern manufacturing industry pays increasing attention to energy conservation and emission reduction. As widely used manufacturing processes, material joining and additive manufacturing could be important in energy saving and emission reduction. Therefore, continually developing new material joining and additive manufacturing techniques to improve manufacturing efficiency and quality and save energy is an eternal pursuit for researchers. Our colleagues have recently made many advances in material joining and additive manufacturing. Summarizing these new techniques and mechanisms is necessary to further promote energy conservation and emission reduction in the manufacturing industry.

The main purpose of this Special Issue is to collect the advances in material joining and additive manufacturing aspects. The main content of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to, arc welding, high energy beam welding, brazing, diffusion welding, friction welding, friction stir welding, laser additive manufacturing, electron-beam additive manufacturing, wire arc additive manufacturing, friction stir additive manufacturing, cold spraying additive manufacturing, and their modeling techniques.

The first volume of this Special Issue received widespread attention from scholars and included many excellent contributions. Given this, we want to create a second volume to continue collecting feature papers.

We invite you to submit your article for the Special Issue ”Advances in Materials Joining and Additive Manufacturing (Volume II)” of the MDPI journal Materials.

Dr. Xiaochao Liu
Prof. Dr. Lei Shi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• fusion welding
• solid-state welding
• fusion-based additive manufacturing
• solid-state additive manufacturing
• numerical simulation
• laser additive manufacturing
• electron-beam additive manufacturing