Dear Colleagues,

The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) represents a breakthrough in product design and development. AM, in fact, gives unprecedented geometrical design freedom, which can result in significant reductions in component weight (e.g., through part count reduction or topology optimization). However, the mechanical behavior of AM components, particularly the fatigue and fracture behavior, are still somehow uncertain, thus limiting the potential extraordinary impact of AM. The uncertainties in mechanical behavior are mainly due to the fact that the material properties evolve during the fabrication process. Every change in the building routine (caused by any change in the geometry and/or in the process parameters) affects the toolpath and, ultimately, the properties of the resulting component—even a small change in the toolpath can lead to big variations in the mechanical behavior of the component.

This Special Issue of Materials aims at bringing together papers investigating the effect of process parameters, building routines, and geometrical features on the mechanical behavior of AM components for applications that vary from biomedical engineering to aerospace components. Particularly, but not exclusively, the Special Issue focuses on fatigue and fracture behavior. The submission of papers on numerical simulation or reporting experimental work, or a combination of both, is welcome.

Dr. Mirco Peron
Prof. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Javad Razavi
Guest Editors

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• additive manufacturing
• process parameters
• geometrical features
• fatigue and fracture
• mechanical behavior
• microstructure
• finite element models
• metals
• polymers and composites
• ceramics