Additive Manufacturing of Intermetallics: Process, Microstructures and Mechanical Properties
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2025) | Viewed by 1763
Special Issue Editor
Interests: termetallics; additive manufacturing (3D printing) for advanced materials; severe deformation and structure control for hard-deformed materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Intermetallics have the advantages of high specific strength, excellent high-temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, superior electronic properties, oxidation resistance, and special physical properties, which make them of great value in technical fields and engineering applications. At the same time, they also have disadvantages, such as a high cost and difficulty in processing and brittleness, restricting their practical application. Additive manufacturing (AM), which realizes the three-dimensional near-forming of components by stacking them layer by layer, has high manufacturing efficiency and is easy to use to realize the free design of components, and has become a research hotspot in the preparation of intermetallic compounds. The increasing market share of AM, that, at the same time, reduces the use of traditional manufacturing technologies, remains a clearly noticeable trend and evident source of development of new materials and technologies. The advantages of this method quickly brought new consumers, expanding its potential application to this group of metals, their alloys, and composite structures. The additive manufacturing of intermetallics, which includes the control and characterization of the material in all processing steps with its final properties analysis, are the scope for this Special Issue.
In this Special Issue, we welcome articles that focus on process methods for the additive manufacturing of intermetallics, relationships among process- microstructures–mechanical properties, and their influence on the final products’ performance. Fully controllable fast and low-cost processes especially remain of interest, with a high implementation potential in the preparation of intermetallics that allows us to produce high-performance products.
Prof. Dr. Junpin Lin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- intermetallics
- alloying design
- laser additive manufacturing
- electron beam additive manufacturing
- arc additive manufacturing
- process optimization
- strengthening mechanism
- structural characterization
- numerical simulation of additive manufacturing
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