Innovative Manufacturing of Metallic Materials for Aeronautical and Spatial Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2024) | Viewed by 290
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fatigue and damage tolerance; crashworthiness; composite materials; light alloys; laser shock peening; structural health monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,
The aerospace industry is constantly looking for new techniques, manufacturing processes and advanced materials to improve strength and reduce weight, in order to enhance performances and lower fuel consumption and costs of aircraft, helicopters and spacecraft. Moreover, components in aerospace are usually low in volume, but at the same time, they are labour-intensive with demanding requirements.
To meet these challenges, laser technology is an example of an early days adoption in aerospace because of its many benefits: flexibility in design and manufacturing, lighter components with reduced costs and more. Laser manufacturing and powder metallurgy are currently applied in aerospace to process different materials, from metals to polymers up to ceramics, with excellent precision and efficiency. Conversely, these new manufacturing processes still face significant challenges, mostly because of qualification and certification issues of novel techniques and materials, such as laser-based additive manufacturing or Aluminium–Scandium or Aluminium–Lithium alloys.
This Special Issue on “Innovative Manufacturing of Metallic Materials for Aeronautical and Spatial Applications” aims to collect recent advances in applications of advanced manufacturing technology for metallic alloys in aerospace. Scientific contributions can be focused on innovative applications of lasers, such as laser-based manufacturing or powder metallurgy. Furthermore, contributions on new high-performance light alloys are welcome, together with characterisation methods and numerical approaches for modelling the process and material properties (e.g., numerical simulations, analytical modelling, optimization, etc.).
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Laser surface treatments (shock peening, hardening, texturing, alloying, etc.).
- Laser-based additive manufacturing.
- Powder metallurgy.
- Advanced alloys for aerospace.
- Numerical simulations.
Dr. Enrico Troiani
Dr. Erica Liverani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 3D printing
- additive manufacturing
- powder metallurgy
- laser shock peening
- light alloys
- modelling and simulation
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