Advanced Additive Manufacturing Processing of Ceramic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Due to their high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and good chemical stability, ceramic materials are widely used in machinery, the chemical industry, electronics, aerospace, biomedicine and other industrial fields. Traditional ceramic processing technology, including injection molding, dry press molding, gel injection molding, etc., is very dependent on the mold, and cannot meet the requirements of rapidly manufactured integrated, complicated and precise ceramic products. Additive manufacturing technology is based on the discrete stacking principle, in which, according to a pre-designed three-dimensional solid model, a series of discrete materials are stacked layer by layer in a predetermined trajectory to create physical parts. Compared to traditional ceramic processing technology, ceramic additive manufacturing technology prevents the key limitation within traditional ceramic processing of its over-reliance on molds, and can quickly produce fully personalized ceramic products without molds, with a high freedom of structural design, and is considered to be one of the many disruptive technologies that constitute Industry 4.0.

This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent research on innovative and pioneering works in additive manufacturing, welding and casting, covering several aspects such as the additive manufacturing process, the numerical simulation of the manufacturing process, process quality monitoring and control, solidification and crystallization, composition distribution and defects.

Dr. Cong Chen
Dr. Wei Zhu
Guest Editors

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• ceramic
• additive manufacturing
• welding
• casting
• monitoring
• numerical simulation
• solidification
• crystallization
• composition distribution
• defects