Tailoring of Microstructures through Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 2240
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Interests: metal additive manufacturing; functional graded materials; anisotropic material properties; microstructure to macroscopic properties relations
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Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM) is well known and respected for its capability to facilitate the fabrication of highly complex geometries, which have greatly enhanced the possibilities in lightweight designs. This, coupled with the opportunity to incorporate additional functionality, such as channels for cooling and/or lubrication, has led to a wide interest in these new technologies. However, that is not all that AM has to offer. Possibilities in new alloy design or regarding the local optimization of the microstructure to shape part properties and to enhance the performance on the material level were greatly overlooked in the past and are today slowly attracting the interest of the research community. Most AM technologies offer access to the microstructure, be it directly via the solidification pattern and the selection process in single-step AM processes such as powder-bed fusion (PBF) or direct energy deposition (DED), or via local alteration on the chemical composition level in multi-step AM processes such as material extrusion (MEX) or binder jetting (BJT). With this direct access to the local microstructure, and with it the local mechanical properties, new designs and an enhanced utilization of the material are possible, further allowing to shed weight and to cut down on the demand for raw materials.
Dr. Leonhard Hitzler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainability
- material design
- lightweight construction
- anisotropy
- inhomogeneity
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