Additive Manufacturing Technology and Applications for Aerospace
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerospace Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 12888
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Interests: integrated product development; aircraft design; metrology; high value manufacturing; manufacturing automation; transforming initial design to manufacturable design
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Dear Colleagues,
Aerospace research has developed rapidly in recent years. To meet the needs associated with these developments, the shape of aeronautical components has started to become more complex and multifunctional. Materials tend to be composed of alloys or composites with a high level of mechanical performance. The continued application of traditional equivalents (e.g., forging and casting) and subtractive processes for the manufacture of high-performance aerospace components faces long lead times, low qualification rates, high costs, or even the inability to manufacture them at all.
The emergence of additive manufacturing (AM) has opened up a new way to solve these challenges and has led to the rapid development of applications in the aerospace sector. The main applications of additive manufacturing in aerospace include rapid prototyping and low volume machining, leading to significant cost and lead-time reductions. The full utilization of AM in aerospace particularly on structural components is only possible when challenges in their manufacturing speed and accuracy and issues associated to AM product validation are resolved.
This Special Issue welcomes papers from ongoing or recently completed research projects in additive manufacturing in the aerospace sector. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
- Structural part design for AM utilization;
- Internal and external topology optimization for AM;
- Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing for AM parts;
- AM product validation and non-destructive testing;
- AM process improvement and in situ inspection;
- Multimaterial AM technology and applications;
- Bio-inspired design of structural parts for AM.
Dr. Jafar Jamshidi
Guest Editor
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