Polymer Materials and Design Processes for Additively Manufactured Products: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hybrid materials; lightweight load-bearing structures; design for additive manufacturing; optimisation; simulation
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Interests: interaction of high-power laser radiation with matter leading to changes in state from heating to melting and applications in additive manufacture; joining and surfacing
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the great promises of additive manufacturing was innovations in product design by exploiting its geometry agnosticism and the reduction of constraints previously imposed by manufacturing capabilities. Once employed purely for prototyping, additive manufacturing is now increasingly used in the production of end-use products, either for spare parts, small series production, or tooling. However, there are still challenges to the wider industrialisation of additive manufacturing, such as a lack of a broader selection of printable materials and limited material performance, as well as a lack of design knowledge, particularly regarding the familiarity with the technology and the design principles that are best suited to AM’s unique capabilities. Manufacturing scaling also appears to be one of the major challenges. While progress has been made to address this challenge, there are still unknowns and a lack of understanding about the process and material interactions during them that would lead to better part repeatability and process accuracy.
Since manufacturing innovation starts with design innovation, this Special Issue focuses on advances, both in polymer material/process design and product design, that impact and improve additively manufactured end-use products and the industrialisation of additive manufacturing.
Dr. Mladenko Kajtaz
Prof. Dr. Milan Brandt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing polymers
- materials
- design
- end-use products
- industrialisation
- polymer composites
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