Advanced Additive Manufacturing and Surface Modifications of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 552
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser powder bed fusion process; cold spray technique; friction stir processing; coating modification
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: additive manufacturing modeling; cold spray technique; robot-assisted manufacturing; coatings; material characterization; mechanical properties
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal additive manufacturing is a rapidly expanding area owing to its flexibility to fabricate components of intricate geometries with customized features for a wide range of applications. However, these parts generally exhibit inadequate and poor surface quality in the as-built configuration. Surface modification techniques including cold spraying, friction stir processing, and laser or electron beam-based deposition processes are widely used to further improve the surface properties of metallic materials, such as corrosion resistance, wear resistance, microhardness, oxidation resistance, etc. This Special Issue focuses on various additive manufacturing techniques, such as laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), direct energy deposition (DED), cold spraying (CS), friction stir processing (FSP), etc., and various surface modification techniques are also included in this Special Issue, like friction stir processing, micro-arc oxidation, laser remelting, laser shot peening, etc. The materials studied can be pure metals, alloys, and composites. The properties for surface modification include but are not limited to corrosion resistance, wear resistance, oxidation resistance, cavitation resistance, antibacterial properties, and magnetic properties.
Prof. Dr. Xie Xinliang
Dr. Hongjian Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- solid-state additive manufacturing
- surface modification
- coatings
- mechanical properties
- corrosion property
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