Laser-Assisted Processing of Metals and Alloys (Second Edition)
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 310
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Interests: additive manufacturing; laser metal processing; biocompatible materials; surface microstructuring; deposition and modification of thin solid structures via high intensity laser irradiation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is an open invitation to contribute to a Special Issue of Metals entitled “Laser-Assisted Processing of Metals and Alloys (Second Edition)”.
We start from the premise that any material can be melted/vaporized under high-intensity laser irradiation through either pulses or a continuous beam. New industrial applications can be envisaged and designed on this basis. Thus, one can tune the melting process to develop high-performance cutting, welding, marking or additive manufacturing technologies. As the laser beam can be focused on a very small spot, these operations can be conducted with a precision in the micrometric range. This is difficult to achieve using other processing techniques.
On the other hand, laser beams struggle to process thick metal sheets because of the mandatory removal of large amounts of molten material from the irradiation site, and the inherent geometrical difficulties. Moreover, the most powerful laser sources in IR (e.g., CO2 at 10.6 μm) are incompatible with common metals used in industry (Al or Cu), due to their high reflectivity/low absorptivity (energy transfer) at these wavelengths.
New industrial challenges were proposed and addressed in recent years via various laser-assisted processes, such as the welding of incompatible materials for cells of electrical batteries, relief marking using laser cladding, heterogeneous laser welding, thermal treatments via laser irradiation, and laser microstructuring for improving surface properties or metal nanoparticle synthesis.
In additive manufacturing, laser beams are used for in situ building and alloying metal and metal matrix composite parts. Multilayer metal structures can be synthesized via laser melting deposition, and configurations with an enhanced topology and convoluted shapes, which are impossible to manufacture through conventional casting, become feasible via layer-by-layer building approaches.
This Special Issue is open to specialists in materials science and metallurgy, where lasers represent a processing tool of metallic materials. High-quality, novel and original research papers or reviews that highlight the latest trends in the laser-assisted processing of metallic materials will be welcomed for submission to this Special Issue.
We await your important contributions and wish you success in your scientific endeavors in the future.
Dr. Andrei C. Popescu
Dr. Duta Liviu-Marian
Prof. Dr. Ion N. Mihailescu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser-assisted processing
- laser additive manufacturing
- laser cutting
- laser welding
- laser marking
- laser microstructuring
- in situ alloying
- laser evaporation of metals
- metal nanoparticle synthesis
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