Experimental Testing and Numerical Simulation of Polymer-Based Additive Manufacturing Parts

Dear Colleagues,

Polymer-based additive manufacturing parts make up a significant and growing proportion of 3D printing, with increasingly diverse areas of application in the medical, aerospace, and automotive sectors.

Many factors, including materials and processes, and their expanding use as final or structural parts have contributed to this growth and have led to the need for specialized research in this field, which is of importance in many branches of engineering.

It is well known that several characteristics of printed parts, such as mechanical properties, depend on printing parameters. Therefore, analysis of the influence of manufacturing parameters on printed parts is a key factor in order to optimize the printing process as well as to predict and understand the material properties.

We encourage scientists and engineers to submit papers for inclusion in this Special Issue. There are no restrictions on the type of manufacture, polymer or field of application. Papers on theory, experiments, design, simulation, etc. will be considered for publication, and we expect that many will contain aspects of all of these.

A non-exhaustive list of possible items would be:

• Process parameters
• Experimental testing
• Standards for testing
• Anisotropy and asymmetry
• Material constants characterization
• Constitutive models
• Mesostructure design and effects
• Numerical simulation
• Finite element analysis
• Static and impact strength
• Fatigue and fracture

Dr. Maria Magdalena Pastor
Dr. Jordi Bonada
Guest Editors

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