Titanium Alloys: A Versatile Material for Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2146
Special Issue Editors
Interests: alloy development; metal additive manufacturing; heat treatment; fatigue failure; crack growth; fatigue modeling
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Interests: metal additive manufacturing; defectology; inequilibrium solidification; materials characterization; deformation behavior; texture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Titanium alloys are extensively used in automotive, aerospace, and medical industries because of their light weight, good tensile strength, and excellent corrosion resistance. Moreover, they have the ability to maintain their properties at elevated temperatures. However, the high production cost limits their applications. Recent advancements in manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing (AM) fabricating near-net shapes, decrease the production cost of titanium parts. At the same time, a significant improvement in the fabrication of complex geometric shapes is leading to new applications. The basic concept of AM can be categorized into five processes involving metal processing: the powder blown process, powder bed fusion, metal arc process, sheet lamination, and binder jetting. Although many high-performance components with complicated geometrical features are currently made using AM, the Ti alloy process parameters controlling the microstructure and leading to their mechanical properties are still a mystery, and it is incredibly challenging to obtain mechanical properties comparable to their wrought counterpart. The Ti alloy microstructure is composed of α, α+β, and β depending on the process parameters pre- to post-processing (such as heat treatment processes), which provides an extended range of mechanical properties.
This Special Issue will address the progress of AM for Ti alloy processing to obtain optimum mechanical properties. It will also cover insights into microstructural phenomena leading to the mechanical properties of the manufacturing process, heat treatment, and alloy modifications of Ti alloys. Researchers modeling and simulating the microstructure of Ti alloys in the AM process and those performing experimental studies are welcome to submit papers.
Dr. Sugrib Kumar Shaha
Dr. Dyuti Sarker
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- titanium alloys
- heat treatment
- phase transformation
- microstructure
- fatigue fracture
- crack growth
