Laser Addition, Subtraction and Composite Manufacturing

Dear Colleagues,

Laser processing technology is a new type of green advanced manufacturing technology, which has obvious advantages over traditional mechanical processing. Its processing method is non-contact, with low energy consumption, high environmental benefits, fast processing speed, low noise, small thermal impact, and strong adaptability. It can process ultra-high hardness, high brittleness, and high melting point materials, and can realize automatic control in precision processing, complex structure processing Batch automatic production and other fields have obvious advantages, and are recognized as "the common processing means of the future manufacturing system".

This Special Issue will include original scientific papers which describe new engineering materials and technological processes of the manufacturing, processing, and formation of their structure and properties in the whole volume and their surface, as well as the description of phenomena and phase transformations appearing in those materials. It will encourage the submission of new fundamental and interdisciplinary contributions on laser manufacturing of the materials science and engineering, surface engineering, and general advances in material technologies.

This Special Issue will focus on the new founding of the laser manufature processes.

Prof. Dr. Zhenbing Cai
Dr. Liucheng Zhou
Guest Editors

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• laser manufacturing
• composite manufacturing
• additive manufacturing
• material reduction manufacturing
• heat treatment
• laser surface engineering
• mechanical properties
• friction and wear
• corrosion and protection
• surface and interface properties
• advanced materials characterization
• laser surface texture
• surface characteristics
• machine vision and machine learning in laser techology