Laser Additive Manufacturing of Steels and Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 4448
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript (full paper, communication, or review paper) to the present Special Issue of Metals. Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is an emerging net-shape manufacturing technology that can produce complex 3D solid and which has recently gained attention as a potential replacement for traditional manufacturing techniques. The ability of AM processes such as laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) to create complex geometries has caused rapid growth in several industries. Energy savings, less material waste, faster design-to-build time, design optimization, reduction in manufacturing steps, and product customization are the most important advantages of AM. The steel industry needs new materials to meet its customers’ increasingly complex demands for products they can use, for instance, to manufacture lightweight and crash-resistant components for the automotive sector. This is where laser AM techniques such as L-PBF come into play, thanks to their ability to exploit digital data to improve component functionality. Adopting metallic 3D printing based on L-PBF technology also gives users the opportunity to sustainably optimize the steel industry’s value chain.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to collect various recent developments in cutting-edge research for enabling laser AM processes for manufacturing of advanced steels and alloys, focusing on microstructure and mechanical property improvement. Papers presenting investigations of novel steel chemical compositions and laser AM techniques for high energy absorbent steels are welcome. In addition, studies that focus on corrosion resistance and hydrogen-induced cracking of 3D-printed steels are welcome. Researchers who are working on computational materials engineering for multiscale modeling of laser AM processes are also encouraged to submit papers. Authors are also encouraged to present new measurement and monitoring techniques of laser AM of steels and alloys.
Dr. Reza Taherzadeh Mousavian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Laser Additive Manufacturing
- Steels and Alloys
- Microstructure
- Mechanical Properties
- Computational Materials Engineering
- Corrosion Resistance
- Hydrogen-induced Cracking
- Monitoring Techniques
