Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Material Characterization Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM), commonly referred to as 3D printing, has experienced significant growth across various industrial sectors. This increase is attributed to AM technologies offering avenues for enhanced functionality, productivity, complex geometries, and competitiveness. With an expanding range of applications, industries have encountered challenges integrating these technologies while navigating dynamic market conditions. However, we believe that with your innovative research, these challenges can be overcome, and the potential of AM can be fully realized.

This Special Issue aims to distribute fundamental and applied research across several key areas to address these issues. By shedding light on recent advancements in AM technologies, materials, characterization and testing techniques, challenges and limitations, design considerations, cost analysis, and industrial applications, this Special Issue aims to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities presented by AM.

We encourage you to submit your research in the fields below to promote knowledge sharing and encourage progress in additive manufacturing. Submissions are welcomed that include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

• Material testing and characterization;
• Defect analysis in additively manufactured products;
• Topology and shape optimization;
• Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM);
• Industrial applications;
• Macro additive manufacturing;
• Micro additive manufacturing;
• Additive manufacturing post-processing;
• Additive manufacturing standardization;
• Additively manufactured materials;
• Cost modeling of additive manufacturing processes.

Contributions employing review, theoretical, numerical, or experimental approaches, separately or in combination, are encouraged to offer innovative solutions to applying additive manufacturing (AM).

Dr. Ana Vafadar
Dr. Reza Hashemi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• additive manufacturing processes
• 3D printing
• material mechanical properties
• additive manufacturing post-processing
• industrial applications
• design optimization