Self-Lubricating 3D Printing Materials
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 467
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Interests: mechanical properties of metallic materials; effect of residual stresses; fatigue, fracture and impact toughness, creep; fracture and contact mechanics; surface engineering and galling resistance; wear and friction properties of coatings and materials; 3D printing, compatibility of lubricants and surfaces
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Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM), also called 3D printing, is a method of manufacturing in which materials, such as plastic or metal, are deposited onto one another in layers to produce three-dimensional objects. Compared to conventional manufacturing processes, AM processes have many perceived advantages, such as high material and resource efficiency, good part flexibility and production flexibility, and economically and environmentally friendly. However, besides design flexibility AM processes give the possibility of mixing different materials and integrating different functions, i.e., self-lubricating properties. Lubricating properties are very important in many applications, but the most demanding are under high-load and/or high-temperature conditions where self-lubricating behaviour of materials is a key property for successful tribological performance of the component.
The topic is very important but also quite new thus requiring a lot of research and experimental investigation. Topics involve 3D printing parameters optimization, powder development, pre- and post-treatments, microstructural examinations, testing, etc. Therefore, contributions from all these fields are welcome to progress the knowledge and use of self-lubricated 3D printed materials.
Dr. Bojan Podgornik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- self-lubricating
- cladding
- tribology
- wear
- high-temperature
- 3D printing
- structures
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