Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process–microstructure–property relation in the additive manufacturing and machining of high-temperature superalloys for transport and nuclear applications
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Dear Colleagues,
The additive manufacturing of metals and their alloys is driven by freedom of design and efficiency in manufacturing. It has shown the greatest impact in industries in the healthcare, aviation, space, construction, and nuclear sectors. Nonetheless, there are limitations to the use of metal additive manufacturing (AM) related to feedstock properties, process parameters, heat treatments, microstructural defects, and post-process issues and their effect on the properties of the AM-produced metal and alloy parts. To accelerate the wider adoption of AM, for this Special Issue, we invite papers that discuss the state of the art, with a focus on the effect of the feedstock, processing, and heat treatment on the microstructure, properties, and integrity of materials produced via AM using either powder or wire feed. We invite experimental and review papers that enhance our scientific understanding of the AM processing of hard and light metal alloys such as stainless steel, nickel-based alloys, titanium and aluminium alloys, exotic alloys, and mild steel. Contributions on subjects related to AM processes, such as laser melting, powder bed fusion, electron beam and laser powder deposition, sintering, and wire arc AM, are also invited. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Feedstock characterisation and reuse and the effects on the integrity of the AM-produced material.
- Defects in the material and their effects on properties and how these can be mitigated by improvements in processing, heat treatment, and the management of feedstocks, especially those that are reused, or, alternatively, how defects could be used to tailor the properties of a material to enhance its thermal, acoustic, or other properties.
- Microstructures and their influence on material properties, particularly how microstructures can be tailored to enhance material properties or create new functionally graded materials.
- AM processing that minimises residual stress and part distortion.
- Post-processing heat treatments such as HIP, stress relief, and precipitation hardening that improve the integrity of a material.
- Surface roughness in additively manufactured metals and its effect on the durability of the material.
- AM and finishing process optimisation to achieve net shape, reduce material waste, and reduce machining requirements.
- AM processing and characterisation of metamaterials, random open cell foams, lattice arrangements, and auxetics.
- Sustainability of metal AM, covering feedstock material, designs for metal AM, and part obsolescence, among other topics.
Prof. Dr. Paul Wood
Dr. Urvashi Fowdar Gunputh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- powder and wire
- feedstock reuse
- metallic alloys
- process–microstructure–property relation
- defects
- porosity
- grain morphology
- fatigue
- lattice structures
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