Advances in 3D Printing Technologies of Metals—3rd Edition
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 661
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; hip prostheses; roughness; porosity; dimensional accuracy; mechanical strength
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2.CIM UPC Technological Center, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: 3D printing; additive manufacturing; Industry 4.0; digital manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Research into the additive manufacturing (AM) of metals has expanded in recent years, with the aim being to obtain high-strength parts and/or parts with high electrical conductivity and complex shapes.
Metallic AM parts are applied in different sectors, including the automotive, aeronautical, medical, and electronics sectors, among many others.
For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of articles that focus on the characterization of metallic parts obtained with different additive manufacturing processes and considering their metallurgy, surface finish, porosity, mechanical properties, geometry features, etc. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following different AM processes:
- VAT polymerization techniques such as stereolithography (SL) with metallic-filled resin;
- Metal binder jetting techniques;
- Material extrusion techniques such as fused deposition modeling (FDM), also known as fused filament fabrication (FFF) with metal-filled filament, direct ink writing (DIW) with metal-filled inks, solid-state friction welding, and Joule printing;
- Metallic material jetting techniques such as nanoparticle jetting (NPJ), liquid metal 3D printing, and supersonic 3D deposition;
- Powder bed fusion techniques such as selective laser melting (SLM) or electron beam melting (EBM);
- Directed energy deposition processes such as powder DED and wire DED based on different energy sources;
- Others, such as ultrasonic consolidation, etc.
Dr. Irene Buj Corral
Dr. Felip Fenollosa-Artés
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal 3D printing
- vat photopolymerization with metal-filled resins
- metal binder jetting
- fused filament fabrication (FFF) with metal-filled filament
- direct ink writing (DIW) with metal-filled ink
- selective laser melting (SLM, DLMS, LMF, etc.)
- electron beam melting (EBM)
- wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM)
- direct energy deposition (DED)
- laser-engineered net shaping (LENS)
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