Precision Additive Manufacturing Processes
A special issue of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (ISSN 2504-4494).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3148
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; system integrations for printed materials and systems; digital materials for 3D printing; industry 4.0 concept and applications
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Interests: machining; modelling and optimization of manufacturing processes; 3D functional printing; hybrid additive and subtractive processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Its unrivalled ability to produce complex 3D parts with considerable reductions in lead-time and material wastage makes additive manufacturing (AM, or 3D printing) a key enabling technology for numerous industrial applications. Especially, AM has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing with new processes, materials and applications. Nevertheless, the precision of AM parts is still an open burning issue that needs addressing, whether metallic, polymer or polymer-based composite components are additively manufactured. The three aspects of a precision process are (1) robust fabrication, (2) predictable performance and (3) measurable quality. Although AM techniques have recently seen increased adoption by various industrial sectors, the precision of the additively manufactured parts remains the main barrier to the full implementation of AM processes and to gaining an increased market acceptance and penetration. Lack of precision in AM processes can be due to several reasons, such as material-related performance, equipment inaccuracies, complex thermal and/or chemical and/or multi-physical and multi-scale nature of the AM processes, inconsistency and interdependent effects of process parameters, lack of smart control systems and inadequate characterization techniques. This Special Issue aims to collect a broad spectrum of cutting-edge and original research and review studies attempting to improve the precision of additive manufacturing processes and related subjects.
Dr. Steffen Scholz
Dr. Ahmed Elkaseer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AM and functional printing
- design for precision AM
- AM process modelling and simulation
- data-driven process improvement
- optimization of AM processing parameters
- characterization of AM parts
- AM post-processing methods
- advances in application-oriented precision AM
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