Additive Manufactured Metals, Polymers and Hybrid Materials for Engineering Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 16828
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Interests: composite materials; damage tolerance; delamination; fatigue; impact damage; crashworthiness; fuselages
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The proposed Special Issue (SI) publishes original research articles, review articles, and short communications regarding the design, production, and performance of metal, polymer, and hybrid structures and concepts, for engineering applications, achievable through additive manufacturing (AM) techniques.
Additive manufacturing is an innovative technique that allows the production of complex shaped and light components without compromising on mechanical performance. This technique, starting from a numerical CAD design phase (which must be considered as an integral part of the manufacturing process), can allow the production of structural components layer by layer or by filament deposition. Both metals and composites can be involved in this manufacturing process, allowing to tailor the compositions of specific alloys and specific composite systems. These characteristics suggest applications to a wide range of engineering problems where lightness, stiffness, and manufacturability are of main concern. The possibility to create hybrid metal/composite solutions, where possible, can amplify the benefits of metal and composite components, leading to a new class of hybrid structural components with a stunning integration capability with the surrounding structure.
However, although the use of additive manufacturing is becoming increasingly widespread, many challenges still need to be overcome to extend all the benefits of this technology to engineering applications. Composite-inherent failure mechanisms, superficial rugosity for metals, and production of large volumes are only a few examples of the main challenges related to the adoption of this new class of fascinating manufacturing techniques. The objective of this Special Issue is to address these challenges. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Additive manufacturing for engineering applications;
- Hybrid metal /composite structures;
- Nanocharged composites for additive applications;
- Short fiber composites for additive applications;
- Lightweight structures;
- Design for additive manufacturing;
- Tailoring of metallic alloy composition by additive;
- Tailoring processing parameters for additive manufactured components;
- Numerical prediction of mechanical performances of additive manufactured components;
- Numerical simulation of the additive manufacturing process;
- Testing of additive manufactured components;
- Nondestructive inspection (NDI) techniques applied to additive manufactured components.
Prof. Dr. Aniello Riccio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- hybrid structures
- short fiber composites
- nanocharged composites
- testing
- NDI techniques
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