Design for Additive Manufacturing: Engineering Data and Assessment Tools
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3572
Special Issue Editors
Interests: FEA; strain analysis; mechanical connection; bolted joints
Interests: machine design; joining technology; fatigue; additive manufacturing; contact mechanics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aims and scope of this Special Issue cover the broad topic of additive manufacturing (AM) concerning metallic materials.
Nowadays, AM techniques are widely used in industrial fields such as aerospace, automotive, and biomechanics. It is therefore necessary to provide reliable experimental data to support the designers and scholars, with particular regard to the mechanical characteristics, technological limits, and economic aspects of AM manufactured components. This Special Issue aims at promoting extensive knowledge of different characteristic of newly designed AM components.
The Guest Editors are seeking valuable contributions in the form of theoretical, numerical and experimental studies dealing with applications of all industrially relevant metal AM technologies. This Special Issue aims at collecting robust experimental evidence which can support the conscious use of these new technologies in real-world applications. Therefore, authors who have carried out studies dealing with static and dynamic properties (e.g., fatigue, impact), technological limits, general design guidelines, and economic aspects of additively produced parts are invited to submit their work.
The main topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- Design for AM: industrial use cases and real-world applications
- Topology optimization and numerical tools for the design to AM
- Powder bed fusion technologies (DMLS, SLM, SLS) for metallic materials
- New technologies for metallic materials
- Experimental characterization and mechanics of materials.
- Anisotropy affecting mechanical properties
- Static, fatigue and impact testing
- Tribological properties and surface finishing of AM produced parts
- Microstructure, internal and external defects of AM produced parts
- Heat, mechanical, chemical and surface treatments for AM produced components
- Residual stresses in AM produced components: detection and assessment
- Powder recycling with regard to economic and technological aspects and its impact on the mechanical characteristics
- Case studies regarding applications of AM produced parts in the fields of mechanical and civil constructions, aerospace, automotive and biomechanics
Dr. Francesco Robusto
Dr. Massimiliano De Agostinis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing processes
- design and modeling
- materials and manufacturing
- metallurgical engineering
- post-treatment: surface finish, heat treatment and machining
- metamaterials
- multiple and novel materials
- inspection techniques, defect identification and characterization
- AM product design and simulation methods and tools, design rules
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