Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloys: Recent Advances and Challenges (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 52
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Interests: materials characterization; advanced manufacturing; composites design; micro manufacturing
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Interests: manufacturing engineering; materials engineering; composite materials; microforming
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Interests: shape memory alloys; in situ alloying; wire-based direct energy deposition; microstructure and mechanical analysis
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Interests: additive manufacturing; material process and design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an important manufacturing strategy in Industry 4.0. Compared with traditional manufacturing and processing methods of metallic products, AM exhibits huge advantages in terms of more flexible geometrical shapes, higher efficiency, better performances, and less waste and carbon emission. The wide range of applicable materials provide potential areas where AM can flexibly realize stringent requirements of different fields and industries, such as vehicle, aero craft, space craft, marine engineering, nuclear power, medical treatment, and defence.
Nowadays, widely used AM techniques for preparing metals and alloys mainly include two types, direct energy deposition (DED) and powder bed fusion (PBF). Specific approaches of DED and PBF are diversified, involving laser melting deposition (LMD), laser-based metal wire deposition (LMWD), wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), electron beam melting (EBM), selective laser melting (SLM), hybrid additive manufacturing (HAM), etc. The metals and alloys used in AM can be different according to the requirements of performances, and they might be steels, titanium (Ti) alloys, aluminum (Al) alloys, nickel (Ni) alloys, multiple principal element alloys (MPEAs), and metal matrix composites (MMCs).
This Special Issue aims to cover the latest progress in the field of additive manufacturing of metals and alloys, including the preparation process, microstructure characterization, properties evaluation, and advanced applications. Submissions of original research articles, reviews, and short communications related to the subject are welcome.
Dr. Fei Lin
Dr. Fanghui Jia
Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. Yao Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- metals and alloys
- materials design
- microstructure characterization
- mechanical properties
- functional properties
- manufacturing processes
- preparation and application
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