Progress and Perspectives in Metal Laser Additive Manufacturing
A special issue of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (ISSN 2504-4494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metal forming; additive manufacturing; friction stir welding; friction drilling; laser transmission welding and heat treatment
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Interests: metal additive manufacturing; laser powder bed fusion; multi-material additive manufacturing; dissimilar metal welding; AI-driven quality inspection and quantitative defect analysis for metal additive manufacturing and welding
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) of metals has emerged as a transformative technology in advanced manufacturing, offering unprecedented capabilities in producing complex geometries, reducing material waste, and enabling rapid prototyping to final-part production. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in both fundamental understanding and industrial adoption of metal laser AM technologies, including laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), directed energy deposition (DED), selective laser sintering (SLS), and beyond.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the latest advances, unresolved challenges, and future opportunities in the field. Key topics include, but are not limited to, process modelling and simulation, microstructure investigation and property optimisation, development of novel alloys for AM, real-time process monitoring and control, as well as strategies for post-processing, feedstock recycling and quality assurance. Contributions addressing scalability, sustainability, and application-driven innovations are also highly encouraged.
By bringing together state-of-the-art research, technical developments, and frontier perspectives, this Special Issue seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and drive innovation in the rapidly evolving field of metal laser additive manufacturing.
Dr. Hao Wu
Dr. Chaoqun Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- laser powder bed fusion
- directed energy deposition
- selective laser sintering
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