Advances in Laser Materials Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Laser processing becomes more relevant today due to its fast adaptation to the most critical technological tasks, ability to provide processing in the most rarefied and aggressive mediums (vacuum conditions), wide field of potential applications, and green aspects related to the absence of industrial cutting chips and dust. With the development of 3D technologies of production, laser processing has received a new round of interest associated with its ability of pointed high-precision powder melting or sintering. New technologies and equipment, which improve and modify laser optic parameters, contribute to better absorption of laser energy by metals or powder surface and allow an increase of laser power up to a few kilowatts. That can positively influence the industrial spread of the laser in mass production and advance the existing manufacturing methods.

The latest achievements in laser processing have become a relevant topic in the most authoritative scientific journals and conferences for the last half-century. Advances in laser processing have received multiple awards in the most prestigious competitions and exhibitions worldwide and at international scientific events.

The Special Issue is devoted to the most recent achievements in the field of laser processing of metals and innovative manufacturing methods based on laser.

Prof. Dr. Sergey N. Grigoriev
Dr. Marina A. Volosova
Dr. Anna A. Okunkova
Guest Editors

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