Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Metallic Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

Developed in the 1980s, Additive Manufacturing (AM), known as Rapid Prototyping, has already revolutionized the production of polymeric material components. New developments in AM technologies are providing industries with the ability to build structural components with a variety of metal alloys, ceramics, and composite materials. The introduction of metal AM processes has revolutionized the production of metallic components in the industrial sectors where complex geometries, organic shapes, tubular, hollow designs, and dense, lattice-filled structures play a decisive role. In the AM, there is no correlation between complexity and cost. Sometimes, more complexity means lower costs: fewer materials and no need for assembly. However, there are problems that limit the wider uptake and exploitation of metals AM. These are related to the lack of design and modeling skills and AM software, to the different properties that are obtained using the same technology but different machines, to the difficulty in perfectly simulating the processes, to the incomplete understanding of the causes of the variation in the quality of the parts and to the repeatability of the processes. This Special Issue is dedicated to disseminating these scientific efforts.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit full papers and reviews in the areas of material supply, part design, process modelling, process technology, postprocessing, and applications of metals AM.

Dr. Flaviana Calignano
Guest Editor

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