Additive Manufacturing Technologies and Applications
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovations in Materials Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2017) | Viewed by 156310
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart structures; composite and FGM materials; multifield problems; thermal and hygroscopic stress analysis; carbon nanotubes; inflatable structures; plate and shell finite elements; 3D and 2D exact and numerical solutions for plate and shell structures; additive manufacturing and UAVs
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Interests: aerospace engineering; additive manufacturing; aerospace design; lattice structures; smart structures; anti-icing systems; multidisciplinary optimization; FBG sensors; safety analysis; contamination control; telemetry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: aerospace engineering; additive manufacturing; aerospace design; lattice structures; smart structures; anti-icing systems; multidisciplinary optimization; FBG sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive Manufacturing is a well-known technology, patented firstly in 1984 by the French scientist Alain Le Mehaute. Its distinctive concept is of adding material with different methods (powder, wire and so on) instead of subtracting from a raw part. It has been widely introduced in the preliminary and conceptual design phase, thanks to the reduced production costs and realization time of a prototype. In the last few years, this technique has also been considered for low scale mass production due to some advantages. Firstly, this technique allows the construction of so-called evolutive shapes: Structures of complex design that are impossible or difficult to build with traditional milling or machining. Evolutive shapes are usually the result of a topological optimization. Therefore, important mass savings or increases in structure mechanical properties are obtained using this resource. The present Special Issue aims to publish papers in the area of Additive Manufacturing with particular attention on the different technologies employed and the several possible applications. Particular attention should be given to technologies, such as the Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which, combined with the Computer Aided Design (CAD), could provide important advantages. Analytical, numerical and experimental knowledge and models are welcome to exploit the potential benefits offered by the 3D printing for the production of advanced structures and systems in aerospace, civil, mechanical and biomedical engineering sectors.
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Brischetto
Prof. Dr. Paolo Maggiore
Mr. Carlo Giovanni Ferro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing (AM)
- fused deposition modelling (FDM)
- selective laser sintering (SLS)
- computer aided design (CAD)
- topological optimization
- analytical models
- numerical models
- experimental models
- advanced structures
- advanced materials
- advanced systems
- mechanical characterization
- prototype developing via AM