Additive Manufacturing Technologies in Alloys Processing
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 1257
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aluminum alloys
Interests: reaction injection moulding; rapid manufacturing; injection moulding; composites and additive manufacturing
Interests: laser material processing; metal additive manufacturing; laser material deposition; laser process modeling; environmental impact
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Dear Colleagues,
Metal additive manufacturing technologies (MAMs) are considered to be key enabling technologies for many industries, namely tooling, automotive, aerospace, railway, biomedical, and electronics. These industries are already harvesting the advantages provided by MAM, namely in terms of increased tooling performance; weight savings achieved via topological optimization in the design of components; material savings, particularly in large components made of exotic materials; and customized implants, to name a few.
However, many challenges associated with the usage of MAM need to be addressed. One of the main challenges is the accurate tailoring of material properties by controlling microstructure and crystallographic texture, which are dependent not only on the material itself but for the most part also on the process parameters and post-processing treatments. Gaps in this knowledge mean metal additive technologies still face difficulties in achieving widespread adoption in industries.
Beyond this optimization of process parameters and post-processing routines, applied to existing materials, the development of new alloys, specifically for additive manufacturing, the development of high-entropy alloys (HEAs), the in situ manufacturing of alloys, and the design of functionally graded materials all seem to be promising approaches to disrupt the existing limitations of the current coupling between materials and manufacturing processes.
This Special Issue aims to disseminate specialized works from scientists, researchers, and industries, including original research works in the field of metal additive manufacturing, or state-of-the-art reviews of key issues of these technologies.
It is thus a pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following: optimization of MAM process parameters and post-treatments towards the tailoring of material properties; design and testing of new alloys, including in situ alloy creation using MAM; MAM manufacturing of alternative alloys such as HEAs and intermetallics; industrial applications of all the above.
Dr. Fabio Simões
Prof. Dr. Artur Mateus
Dr. Jon Iñaki Arrizubieta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- hybrid manufacturing
- alloy design
- high entropy alloys
- functionally graded materials
- steels, aluminum, titanium and nickel based alloys
- process optimization
- microstructure
- texture and thermal treatments
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