Dear Colleagues,

Electrical machines were invented more than 200 years ago, and their fundamental design procedures have been developed over decades and are still evolving. The conventional manufacturing techniques of electrical machines have already reached their desired level, and it seems that there is less possibility to do research and development on these techniques. As a result, new design methods and manufacturing techniques are required to provide outstanding and profound impacts on electrical machines’ evaluation process. In other words, advanced modern techniques allow the electrical machines’ manufacturers to design novel electrical machines with whatever complex shapes, structures, and advanced materials by implementing the modern computational electromagnetic, thermal, and material approaches. The demands for clean energy technologies for different applications, for instance, wind power, electric vehicles, and electric powertrains, are rising rapidly. The demand metrics are mainly concentrated on high power density, high efficiency, and lightweight electrical machines.

Therefore, the additive manufacturing approach is considered a new manufacturing technology method and is evolving dynamically in recent years. It is advancing and achieving as the key enabling technology in a wide range of applications, from medical sciences to the aerospace and automotive industries. This novel approach opens a new path to overcome the conventional manufacturing problems and challenges by providing more design freedom, new ranges of materials, and lightweight and complex geometries.

This is a call for papers for a Special Issue on "Future trends in advanced design of electrical machines, drives and electric vehicles using additive manufacturing approaches". This Special Issue will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest theoretical and technological achievements and identify critical issues and challenges for future investigation in the design of electric machine drives using additive manufacturing approaches. The submitted papers are expected to raise original ideas and potential contributions to theory and practice. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

- Iron core;

- Windings and insulations materials;

- Permanent magnets;

- Mechanical and structural parts;

- Thermal management systems;

- Integrated electrical machines and drives (IMD);

- Multi-material systems for the fully additively manufactured electrical machines.

Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Dr. Payam Shams Ghahfarokhi
Prof. Ants Kallaste
Dr. Fan Wu
Guest Editors

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• additive manufacturing
• electric motor
• drive
• design
• thermal management
• modeling
• mechanical structure
• materials