Laser Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Technologies, and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Laser Coatings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2024 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editor
Interests: laser additive manufacturing; wire arc additive manufacturing; friction stir additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, rapid developments in laser additive manufacturing have been applied for the direct fabrications of metallic and non-metallic products with high flexibility and productivity in different fields. This is a revolutionary manufacturing process that fabricates continuum objects layer by layer using digital models or computer-aided design (CAD) data. What makes this process different from the conventional methods are the quick cooling rate and remelting/reheating phenomenon, which lead to different microstructural evolutions, which can be associated with the material types used, the designed process controls, and the complex geometries of objects.
This Special Issue is devoted to publishing original research and review articles which focus on all aspects of laser additive manufacturing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Solidification on solid–liquid interfaces in laser additive manufacturing;
- Processes for laser deposition repairing and modification;
- Processes for laser-arc hybrid additive manufacturing;
- Wear, corrosion, and erosion in laser additive manufacturing;
- Characterization techniques for the improvement of laser additive manufacturing;
- Crack and fatigue properties in laser additive manufacturing;
- Process controls for laser additive manufacturing;
- Fundamental and functional properties of surfaces and interfaces in laser deposition repair and modification;
- Surface formation in laser additive manufacturing;
- Modelling and simulations of laser additive manufacturing;
- Digital twin of laser additive manufacturing;
- Topological optimization in laser additive manufacturing.
Prof. Dr. Zhao Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- laser additive manufacturing
- directed energy deposition
- powder bed fusion
- laser deposition repairing and modification
- laser-arc hybrid additive manufacturing
