Laser Cladding
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2017) | Viewed by 13099
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
Laser cladding, a laser-assisted material deposition method initially developed as a coating process in the late 1980s, is currently undergoing a rapid evolution, due to its capability of producing coatings with unique characteristics as well as its potential application as a rapid manufacturing process. Laser cladding allows deposition of a wide variety of metallic and composite materials onto almost any substrate, to produce coatings with outstanding surface properties and negligible degradation of the substrate material. It also allows manufacturing of three-dimensional objects with a wide variety of shapes and dimensions, from the microscale to very large dimensions, using a wide-range of materials. The applications are varied: from bioimplants to the production and repair of single-crystal components for aerospace applications, and new materials development by combinatorial methods.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish cutting-edge scientific papers on new process developments, both for coating and for rapid-manufacturing applications, process hardware and software developments, real-time adaptive process control, process modelling and simulation, microstructure formation mechanisms and microstructure–properties relationships in laser deposited materials, and process applications.
Prof. Dr. Rui Vilar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Laser cladding
- Blown powder laser cladding
- Wire laser cladding
- Laser hardfacing
- Laser powder deposition
- Laser-assisted additive manufacturing
- LENS (Laser Engineered Net Shaping)
- Directed energy deposition
- Laser metal deposition
- Laser metal printing
- Laser microcladding
- Laser microdeposition
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