Metal Additive Manufacturing: Metallic Materials and Advanced Structures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2024) | Viewed by 8408
Special Issue Editors
Interests: selective laser melting; laser powder bed fusion
Interests: selective laser melting; additive manufacturing; porous structures; metal 3D printing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue on “Metal Additive Manufacturing: Metallic Materials and Advanced Structures”.
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is the process of joining materials to make objects layer upon layer from computer-aided design (CAD) model data, as opposed to subtractive manufacturing methods. It is a disruptive technology that can provide design flexibility, part customization and/or complexity, and versatile functionalities for future advanced manufacturing. Metal AM, which plays an increasingly important role in the AM field, has been advancing in industrial applications of aerospace, automotive, biomedical, energy, space, marine and offshore, molding and tooling, etc., due to the superior strength, hardness, and wear and heat resistance of metallic products as compared to those of polymeric and ceramic counterparts. Recently, rapid advances in metal AM have allowed the fabrication of metallic materials and structures for lightweight, non-assembly, bio-inspiration, and multiple functions, with the development of new methodologies and systems. Representative processes of metal AM include powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition, binder jetting, and sheet lamination, and will be further developed toward hybrid additive and subtractive manufacturing, multiple-energy-sources-aided manufacturing, and large-scale manufacturing techniques in the future. The development of metal materials and processes may also enable the achievement of multiscale, multifunctional and hierarchical structures with unusual and remarkable properties.
The growing metal AM community brings enormous opportunities and challenges for academic and industrial applications. This Special Issue is devoted to exploring cutting-edge research and recent advances in the field of metal AM, with a particular emphasis on interactions between materials and energy beams, novel structural properties, and applications.
Dr. Changhui Song
Dr. Changjun Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- numerical simulation
- alloy design
- structure design
- topology optimization
- in situ monitoring
- machine learning
- applications
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