Laser Materials Processing and Hybrid Approaches
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2020) | Viewed by 240
Special Issue Editor
Interests: laser processing; additive manufacturing; laser metal deposition; powder bed processes; materials and multimaterials; production engineering; system technology for AM
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Laser materials processing (LMP) is used in a wide range of industrial applications and is an essential part of our daily life. Various processes—e.g., additive manufacturing, welding, cutting, ablation, microtechnology, as well as hardening—require different laser configurations. To fulfill high industrial demands, modern laser sources are highly flexible, compact, and available with different wavelengths.
For the right use, a profound understanding of the whole laser process is necessary: This includes fundamental process phenomena such as the interaction between laser beam and matter, melt pool behavior, but also material history.
In addition to pure LMP, process chains often combine laser processes with other production engineering technologies. By combining different energy sources as well as whole process technologies (hybrid solutions), overall benefits can be reached.
This Special Issue addresses the broad spectrum of laser materials processing along the process chain, taking into account:
- process observations and fundamental research;
- simulation and modeling in LMP;
- novelties in system technology and hybrid approaches;
- new material solutions, ranging from single to multimaterial processing;
- aspects of commercialization and industrial case studies, as well as
- solutions for digitalization.
Hence, it combines the whole field of material, system, and process-related aspects.
We would like to invite you to submit a manuscript for this special issue on LMP. Full papers as well as letters are highly welcome!
Prof. Frank Brückner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Process phenomena in laser materials processing
- Laser beam interaction with matter
- Additive manufacturing, e.g., laser metal deposition, laser powder bed fusion/selective laser melting
- Hybrid manufacturing, in combination with conventional manufacturing routes
- Macro- and microtechnology
- Joining
- Laser ablation and cutting
- Digitalization in laser materials processing
- Theoretical aspects and modeling
- Future perspectives of laser materials processing
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