Progress in Metal Additive Manufacturing and Metallurgy (Third Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 282
Special Issue Editor
Interests: future additive manufacturing; powder bed fusion process; directed energy deposition process; hybrid additive manufacturing process; Ni-based superalloys; titanium alloys; steels; aluminium; microstructure; defects; mechanical properties; metallurgy; mechanical testing; simulation; modelling; validation; qualification
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Dear Colleagues,
Research in the additive manufacturing (AM) of metals has witnessed a dramatic rise in global attention during the past decade. Some AM processes have evolved from conventional welding processes, while others, such as powder bed fusion processes, have been developed with the specific intent of enabling the manufacture of complex 3D geometrical objects. One key feature of all AM processes is that material is only added where it is really needed, thereby permitting near-net shape manufacture utilizing starting feedstock in powder or wire form, with virtually no residual material waste if all the un-melted material can be fully recycled.
AM involves a complex manufacturing chain spanning a number of different expert competences that have to be coordinated appropriately to enable successful economical serial production of AM components. This Special Issue intends to address the latest progress in various facets of metal AM that constitute the entire value chain. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Directed energy deposition processes (DED, powder and wire);
- Powder bed fusion processes (PBF, EBM, and more);
- Hybrid–AM techniques;
- Process parameter–microstructure/defects–mechanical property relationships;
- Advanced characterization of AM utilizing SEM, TEM, synchrotron radiation diffraction, neutron scattering, and more;
- Post-build/in situ treatments (HIP, HT, machining, shot peening, hybrid manufacturing, and more) and their influence on material properties and quality;
- In-line monitoring techniques for process-build evaluation and control;
- Development of smart systems based on AI to analyze data and the development of adaptive control systems that use these data to adaptively control the process;
- AM process modeling, including areas such as temperature history, phase transformation, precipitation kinetics, microstructure, defects, cracks, and residual stress/distortion;
- Development of alloys customized for AM.
I hope the comprehensive AM-related focus of this Special Issue will encourage submissions of manuscripts incorporating recent research findings within any of the above topics, as well as manuscripts focused on the complex chain of activities required for AM to mature into a serial manufacturing technique.
Prof. Dr. Robert Pederson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- metals
- directed energy deposition processes
- powder bed fusion processes
- wire
- powder
- AI
- on-line/in-line monitoring and sensors
- material/process modeling
- qualification
- digitalization
- AM and sustainability
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