Additive Manufacturing: Alloy Design and Process Innovations

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing (AM) is revolutionizing the manufacturing sector, especially for the production of metallic components with added functionality, including complex or intricate geometries, conformal cooling channels, and for production of highly-customized parts with small production cycles. In addition, there is the possibility for materials saving and weight reduction of the components in automobile and aerospace sectors, helping in reducing fuel consumption and promoting a green environment. The AM field is undergoing rapid developments with new improvements and innovations taking place at a very short period of times. However, the AM field faces several challenges before it may be adapted completely in an industrial environment like the process capabilities, the material aspects including the microstructure formation and properties and the process cycle. It is, therefore, necessary to devote attention to focus the research and development activities in the field of AM and to promote the industrialization process. This includes production of powder, properties of powder, AM process developments, alloy systems used for the AM process, post-processing of the components, etc., are some of them. This Special Issue will be devoted to disseminate expert views and article contributions on the developments and innovations in the field of AM along with the design of alloys specific to additive manufacturing processes.

Scientific contributions are invited from scientists, researchers, engineers and industry to disseminate recent inventions and developments in the field of AM. The potential topics include but not limited to:

• Alloy systems and alloy development
• Next generation 4D printing
• Innovation in processing strategies
• Innovation and advancement in powder production
• Microstructure and property correlation
• Numerical simulation
• Defect and failure analysis
• Industrialization of the process

This Special Issue looks forward to receiving submissions in any form, including review articles, regular research articles, and short communications. Both experimental and theoretical studies are of interest.

Prof. Dr. Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth
Prof. Dr. Zhi Wang
Collection Editors

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