Design for Additive Manufacturing: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Additive Manufacturing Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 340
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; design for additive manufacturing; engineering design; design optimization
Interests: structural design; composite materials; smart materials; fluid–structure interaction; mechanical behavior of materials; design for additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM) is recognized as an advanced manufacturing process that can provide tremendous design freedom and dramatically reduce material waste. It also has the advantage of eliminating tooling costs compared to conventional manufacturing processes such as injection molding and metal forming, so AM has been actively utilized in industry—particularly in the aerospace, defense, automotive, and medical sectors. The advantage of AM is that it can produce a wide variety of products with intricate geometries that cannot be produced using traditional manufacturing methods. Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) means that designers should tailor their designs to eliminate additive manufacturing difficulties and minimize AM production costs. DFAM involves exploring new designs to make them AM-ready or providing design guidelines for AM. DFAM can also include part consolidation or design optimization methods that can significantly reduce weight while maintaining or improving mechanical performance compared to simple solid shapes of parts. This Special Issue will publish original research articles, review articles, and short communications on the latest advances and prospects in DFAM, including, but not limited to, design optimization for AM, part consolidation, DFAM guidelines, design space exploration, topology optimization, and generative design.
Dr. Sangjin Jung
Dr. Giangiacomo Minak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- design for additive manufacturing
- design guidelines
- part consolidation
- support structure
- design optimization
- design space exploration
- lattice structure
- topology optimization
- generative design
