Opportunities and Challenges of Utilizing Metal Additive Manufacturing Approaches for Sustainable Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 4394
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable additive manufacturing; laser additive manufacturing; metal additive manufacturing; material characterization
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Interests: additive manufacturing; computer numerical control; machine learning; laser material processing; vision systems; robotics
Interests: advanced machining; surface metrology; surface engineering; deposition technologies; nano-finishing; gear engineering
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Interests: additive manufacturing; in-situ monitoring and closed-loop control of additive manufacturing; laser material processing; mechatronics design; bio-additive manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue of Sustainability on the topic of "Sustainable Metal Additive Manufacturing". Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM) technologies have revolutionized industrial manufacturing in the engineering and medical sectors, enabling the production of high-performance components. MAM encompasses both direct and indirect processes, offering design freedom, mass customization, and minimal material wastage through layer-by-layer build-up.
While MAM has made significant strides, real-world challenges still hinder its complete deployment in industries. These challenges include non-standard material properties, lack of standard practices, defect formation, geometrical issues, and material non-homogeneity. Despite the above limitations, the sustainable nature of MAM processes attracts the deployment of the technology for various applications. Significant research is being undertaken across the globe on the reuse of industrial waste for MAM, reuse of feedstock material, process optimization for improving sustainability, etc. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to gather original research, high-quality review articles, and short communications that address the sustainability issues in MAM.
We invite contributions from all relevant disciplines to shed light on recent advances and potential solutions to sustainability challenges in MAM. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Process optimization for metal additive manufacturing to build parts faster with minimal wastage;
- Employability of reused feedstock material for MAM;
- Deployment of machining waste for MAM;
- Effect of process conditions on the process efficiency and quality of MAM components;
- Process monitoring for improving the quality of MAM built parts;
- Non-destructive analysis of MAM built components;
- Sustainable approaches to enhance the performance of MAM components;
- Sustainable post-processing techniques for MAM parts;
- In situ and ex-situ quality control of MAM parts;
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) of MAM components;
- Numerical and analytical modeling of the MAM process to improve process efficiency;
- Comparative studies between different feedstock material sources.
Dr. Jinoop Arackal Narayanan
Dr. Farzaneh Kaji
Dr. Sunil Pathak
Prof. Dr. Ehsan Toyserkani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal additive manufacturing
- sustainable additive manufacturing
- 3D printing
- waste reduction
- recycling
- reuse
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