Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing: Recent Progress

Dear Colleagues,

The principle of solid-state bonding generated by a high-speed collision has led to new cutting-edge technologies in the field of material and manufacturing processes. Cold spray additive manufacturing is an emerging technology that makes use of the solid-state bonding enabled during a high-speed collision. The progressive implementation of such innovative manufacturing can bring improvements in the field of material and processing technology, due to diverse added values such as the capability of rapid manufacturing, versatile processing, and multifunctional product manufacturing. This Special Issue will publish papers on all aspects of the science of cold spray additive manufacturing, including but not limited to:

• Process behavior to the material response;
• Computational and phenomenological analysis;
• Empirical investigations and materials characterization/modelling;
• Properties optimization via a post-processing;
• Large structure manufacturing;
• Defect diagnosis and monitoring;
• Specific material processing and challenges;
• Applications and industrial implementation.

Dr. Rija-Nirina Raoelison
Guest Editor

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