Advances in Additive Manufacturing (Volume II)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2024) | Viewed by 20737
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Interests: rapid solidification; aluminum alloys; amorphous alloys
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Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing has taken academia, government agencies, and academia by storm and for good reasons. Opportunities for applications seem to abound, only to be matched by the challenges that could potentially slow down the transformative opportunities of additive manufacturing. These challenges are manifold but mostly revolve around an archnemesis of all manufacturing—variations in product attributes, often without a clear understanding of causes. To address this critical challenge, increasingly, modeling and simulations are used to identify potential sources for variations in microstructures and properties of additively manufactured parts. Advanced characterization techniques both in operandi and post-built complement modeling and simulation efforts. Significant progress has been made using this diverse set of process analysis methods to identify sources of variations.
This Special Issue highlights the current state of the art in understanding sources and causes of process variations in additive manufacturing using a diverse set of tools. Contributions are sought that cover topics of variations in starting materials and their effects on the additive manufacturing process and part properties, including but not limited to powder pedigree and their effects on the additive manufacturing process and part properties; variations in powder delivery and in case of powder-bed additive manufacturing, powder beds and their variations with powder spreading and ramifications on powder bed melting and solidification. Also of interest are variations in energy source characteristics; variations in build chamber gas flows and gas species or other relevant variations of the additive manufacturing process. Modeling and simulation approaches are relevant, as are experimental studies, the use of sensors, and other diagnostic tools.
We invite full-length papers with original research contributions, review papers, and communications with significant novel research content.
Prof. Dr. Rainer J. Hebert
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- powders
- additive manufacturing
- microstructures and properties
- laser or electron beams
- design for variation
- uncertainty quantification
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