Additive Manufacturing processes have attracted the attention of researchers in the past decade because of their ability to fabricate parts with complex shapes, improved functionalities, in some cases improved properties compared to their counterparts manufactured by powder metallurgy/casting techniques. Most of these additive manufacturing techniques involve solidification/fusion as the joining mechanism (excepting some techniques where diffusion is used as the joining mechanism). With the advancement in technology, more and more material systems have been introduced/fabricated and some new compositions were being coined based on the processing conditions, especially suiting the process. In addition, numerous works are being carried out in terms of simulation/modeling of the process, defect formation, etc. along with topological optimization and process optimization. In the last decade, numerous publications/review articles were published on the abovementioned topics.
Since the developments taking place in the fields of additive manufacturing, especially fusion-based processes like the laser powder-bed fusion process/direct energy deposition/powder-fed processes, etc. rapid and to cope with the recent developments a collection of publications in these fields is a prerequisite to keep track the developments taking place in the field. This article collection is expected to attract acute knowledge in the field of additive manufacturing but also support the researchers/authors up-to-date with the developments/improvements in the area that covers various aspects from powder manufacturing to end-product development including microstructure-property correlations.
The collection intends to cover (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Alloy design for additive manufacturing
- Novel materials processing including functionally graded materials, amorphous materials, quasicrystalline materials, high entropy alloys, etc.
- Design, analysis, and additive manufacturing of porous metallic structures and scaffolds
- Parameter optimization
- In situ process monitoring
- Process optimization
- Laser modulation
- Microstructural characterization
- Materials testing (including tensile properties, fatigue, fracture, and failure analysis of AM parts.)
- Microstructure–property correlations
- Big data analysis
- Machine learning/artificial intelligence
- Process simulations and properties simulation
- Topological optimization
- Process development
- AM process modelling and simulation
- 4D additive manufacturing process
- Applications
- Mechanical and microstructural characterization of AM parts
