Selective Laser Melting Technology

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing is currently the most dynamically developing branch of the production industry. New AM technologies are constantly emerging that allow obtaining increasingly better products, but equally, important progress is observed in the evolution of existing technologies, especially by developing new materials and improving the properties of existing ones.

Selective laser melting is one of the most widespread powder-bed-based additive manufacturing technologies in the industry. It is also one of the technologies most often chosen as the subject of scientific research, which is due to the huge innovation potential of SLM—intensive research is carried out on technological parameters and melting process conditions, new materials are being developed, and innovative solutions in the field of process control and manufactured parts diagnostics are tested. This is only a small part of the huge spectrum of currently conducted research related to the selective laser melting process.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the dissemination of discoveries concerning SLM technology as well as related issues, such as powder metallurgy, development of new alloys, and postprocessing of additively manufactured parts.

Scientific contributions are invited from scientists, researchers, engineers, and industry to disseminate recent inventions and developments in the field of selective laser melting. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Microstructure and properties of SLM processed materials;
• Process simulation;
• Manufactured part postprocessing;
• Metal matrix composites obtained by SLM;
• High entropy alloys;
• SLM process diagnostics;
• Biomedical application of SLM.

Submissions in the form of review articles, regular research articles, and short communications are welcome.

Dr. Dariusz Grzesiak
Guest Editor

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• SLM
• selective laser melting
• additive manufacturing
• 3D printing
• powder bed fusion