Large-Scale Facilities for Additive Manufacturing

Dear Colleagues,

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly developing technology that has revolutionized the manufacturing sector. AM offers the possibility to manufacture near-net-shape complex objects, but in the meantime, bears the promise of achieving complex microstructures or multimaterials, through manipulation of the process parameters. AM has revolutionized the way we think about materials processing and revealed new challenges for the materials science community, while the modeling community strives for experimental input to verify the constitutive equations in simulation packages.

Large-scale facilities, such as synchrotron light and neutron sources, can play a key role in tackling many of the emerging challenges by offering a range of experimental methods exploiting high flux, high brilliance, fast detection systems, and novel sample environments. These methods not only allow for characterizing the post-built objects but also following the evolution of materials operando properties or investigating the performance of components under operational conditions.

This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on advanced characterization techniques, at large scale facilities, applied to additively manufactured materials or components. Relevant topics can include, but are not limited to operando X-ray or neutron diffraction or imaging while processing materials, non-destructive imaging and tomographic reconstruction of defects or internal structures, residual strain characterization by diffraction or diffraction contrast imaging, deformation mechanisms of AM materials, in situ observations during fast heating/cooling treatments in metals, alloys, ceramics, metallic glasses, etc. The goal is to give an overview of the advances in experimental methods that allow us to understand better the link between process parameters and materials properties.

Dr. Efthymios Polatidis
Guest Editor

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• additive manufacturing
• in situ
• operando
• synchrotron
• neutron
• diffraction
• imaging
• residual stress
• defects
• phase transformations