Additive Manufacturing and Processing of Polymeric Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 2363
Special Issue Editor
Interests: additive manufacturing; polymer composites; multi-functional materials
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Dear Colleagues,
The applications of additive manufacturing (AM), or the layer-by-layer building process, are extensive. Pre-production models, end-use automotive parts, art, and medical implants are some areas in which AM parts are being used. Despite the fact that AM offers many advantages over traditional manufacturing, several disadvantages such as slow build rates, poor mechanical properties for plastic parts in particular, and a lack of industry standards for testing and evaluating the limits of the widespread use of the technology. New methods for processing and post-processing and new materials are needed to improve the quality of 3D-printed parts and the range of mechanical properties achievable. This Special Issue focuses on polymer-based additive manufacturing techniques such as fused filament fabrication, selective laser sintering, vat polymerization, material jetting, and paste extrusion. It aims to publish cutting-edge original research and review papers on the latest advances in new materials and approaches in polymer additive manufacturing. The topic themes include polymer AM feedstock development, composite and complex feedstocks, multi-material printing, in situ and post-processing techniques to improve polymer welding/part strength, structure–property relationships, new approaches/technologies for 3D-printing polymers, characterization techniques, and process modelling.
Dr. Kevin Hart
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- standardizatoin
- polymer processing
- 3D printing
- fracture mechanics
- fused filament fabrication
- material extrusion
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