Machining, Grinding, and Laser Processing of Metallic Materials
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
Interests: grinding; surface quality; subsurface damage; grinding wheels
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Interests: additive manufacturing; precision machining; hybrid additive/subtractive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Special Issue entitled "Machining, Grinding, and Laser Processing of Metallic Materials". This Special Issue aims to explore the latest advancements in the machining, grinding, and laser processing of metallic materials. Metallic materials play a crucial role in numerous critical industrial sectors, including aerospace, automotive manufacturing, mechanical engineering, and energy, due to their excellent mechanical properties, machinability, and cost-effectiveness. Due to the need for enhanced processing accuracy, efficiency, and quality in modern manufacturing, machining, grinding, and laser processing technologies are facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Machining is traditionally used for metallic material processing; it removes material through the relative motion between the cutting tool and the workpiece, enabling various processes such as turning, milling, and planing. Grinding utilizes the high hardness and wear resistance of abrasives to perform precision processing on metallic surfaces, achieving high dimensional accuracy, low surface roughness, and excellent surface quality. Laser processing, as an emerging non-contact processing technology, has revolutionized metallic material processing with its high energy density, high-precision positioning, and programmability. It can not only process complex shapes that are difficult to fabricate in traditional machining and grinding, but it also plays a unique role in micro-nano manufacturing, surface modification, and additive manufacturing. These three processing technologies complement and develop synergistically, promoting the development of metallic material processing technologies.
This Special Issue will focus on recent research achievements, technological innovations, and engineering application practices in the machining, grinding, and laser processing of metallic materials. We invite researchers, engineers, and scholars to submit high-quality research papers and review articles that address the following topics: machining technology, grinding technology, laser processing technology, the integration and synergistic processing of multiple technologies, material response and mechanism research in processing, the quality and performance evaluation of processing, processing characteristics and the development of new metallic materials, and industrial application cases.
Dr. Yunguang Zhou
Dr. Pengfei Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metallic materials
- laser-assisted manufacturing
- additive manufacturing
- laser processing
- machining
- grinding
- integration of multiple technologies
- processing mechanisms
- processing quality
- material performance
- industrial applications
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