Advances in Additive Manufacturing for Metallic Materials and Their Applications (4th Edition)
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2026 | Viewed by 1412
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing and their applications; rapid tooling; CNC manufacturing
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Interests: three-dimensional printing; bio-printing; topological optimization; computer-aided design; computer-aided engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a new type of manufacturing engineering with a less than 35-year history. The real value of additive manufacturing is in identifying the applications where reductions in lead time, manufacturing cost, weight, tooling, and so on can lead to huge benefits across a part’s lifecycle in many applications, from industry to medicine.
Additive manufacturing has evolved rapidly in the last few years. It has been embraced by major industrial companies looking for ways to improve their products. The ability to deliver near-instant part production and fully custom designs that cannot be replicated with other manufacturing techniques has accelerated investment and research in additive engineering.
A number of different metals are now available in powdered form to suit exact processes and requirements. Titanium, steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper-, cobalt-chrome-, titanium- and nickel-based alloys are available in powdered form, as are precious metals such as gold, platinum, palladium, and silver.
This Special Issue will cover fundamental studies of additive manufacturing process, optimizations, new additive processes, rapid tooling, and applications from industry to medicine using metal powders as raw materials.
I hope that the present Special Issue will be an opportunity for creating a strong network between authors and users, working in some different sectors, for smart applications from industry to medicine.
Prof. Dr. Petru Berce
Prof. Dr. Rǎzvan Pǎcurar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing process
- optimization of AM process
- rapid tooling
- industrial applications
- medical applications
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