Laser Manufacturing Technologies for Aerospace Applications
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 9531
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue & damage tolerance; crashworthiness; composite materials; light alloys; laser shock peening; structural health monitoring
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: fatigue; fracture mechanics; finite element analysis; friction stir welding; laser shock peening; titanium machining
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The aerospace industry has been constantly looking for new techniques and manufacturing processes to improve strength and reduce weight, in order to enhance performances and lower fuel consumption and costs of aircraft, helicopters, and spacecraft. Moreover, the components in aerospace are usually low in volume, but at the same time, they are labor-intensive, with demanding requirements.
To meet these challenges, laser technology has been adopted from its early days in aerospace because of its many benefits: flexibility in design and manufacturing, lighter components with reduced costs, and more. Laser manufacturing is currently applied in aerospace to process different materials, from metals to polymers up to ceramics, with excellent precision and efficiency.
Conversely, laser manufacturing still faces significant challenges, mostly because of qualification and certification issues of novel techniques, such as laser-based additive manufacturing.
This Special Issue on “Laser Manufacturing Technologies for Aerospace Applications” aims to collect recent advances in applications of laser technology in aerospace. Scientific contribution can be focused on conventional applications of lasers, such as surface treatment, cutting, welding drilling, etc., up to more innovative ones, such as laser-based manufacturing. Furthermore, contribution on characterization methods and numerical approaches to modeling the laser process and material properties (numerical simulations, analytical modelling, optimization, etc.) are welcome.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
- Conventional laser manufacturing (cutting, drilling, welding, etc.);
- Laser surface treatments (shock peening, hardening, texturing, alloying, etc.);
- Laser based additive manufacturing;
- Numerical simulations.
Prof. Dr. Enrico Troiani
Prof. Dr. Claudia Polese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 3D printing
- Advanced processes
- Aerospace
- Design optimization
- Laser cutting
- Laser coating
- Laser drilling
- Laser welding
- Laser cladding
- Laser hardening
- Laser alloying
- Laser texturing
- Laser shock peening
- Laser additive manufacturing
- Modelling and simulation
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