Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic-based Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The widespread use of advanced ceramic-based materials depends on the availability of industrial processing routes to fabricate parts with required geometries. Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is a fast-growing technique for fabricating parts layer-by-layer directly from 3D digital models. AM has tremendous potential for producing high-value, complex, individually customized parts. As technological progress continues in the field, it can be expected that AM technologies will have an extraordinary impact on the industrial production of ceramic components, and will open up new possibilities for ceramics uses and markets.

Ceramic AM also poses some challenges compared to polymers and metals. Process-induced part warping and cracking and less-than-desired properties cannot be fully controlled. In addition, the properties of the ceramic and ceramic composite parts exhibit a wide variability because of undesired flaws or large porosity, thereby adding great difficulties in consistently producing high-quality components with minimal experimental trials and errors.

This Special Issue will highlight recent advances in the additive manufacturing of ceramic-based materials. Full-length research articles, reviews, and short communications are encouraged. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Established ceramic AM techniques, such as sheet lamination, powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition, material jetting, binder jetting, and material extrusion;
2. Hybrid ceramic AM processes, and novel approaches;
3. Computational and experimental investigations of process–microstructure–property relations, including but not limited to multi-scale multi-physics modeling, as well as in-situ and ex-situ characterization of grain structures, porosity, surface roughness, structural and functional properties for AM-fabricated ceramics and ceramics composites;
4. Data-driven process optimization and quality control of AM ceramic-based components (e.g., based on surrogate models, uncertainty quantification, machine learning and deep learning technologies);
5. Multi-material additive manufacturing, such as ceramic–metal composites, ceramic matrix composites, and functionally graded ceramics;
6. Novel applications of AM ceramic-based components.

Dr. Xiangyang Dong
Dr. Xuan Song
Dr. Lei Chen
Guest Editors

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• additive manufacturing
• computational modeling
• experimental characterization
• in-situ monitoring
• feedstock preparation
• postprocessing
• ceramic-based materials
• applications