Papers Requested for Special Journal Issue on Additive Manufacturing

Papers Requested for Special Journal Issue on Additive Manufacturing Papers Requested for Special Journal Issue on Additive Manufacturing Papers Requested for Special Journal Issue on Additive Manufacturing The ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue covering additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, to be published in December. The deadline for submitting a paper for this special issue is April 15, 2014. Over the past few years, additive manufacturing/3D printing technology has had a major impact on the engineering design, driving the concept of distributed manufacturing, the decentralization of manufacturing capability from factories to offices and homes. Although AM technology is more than 30 years old, this increased public awareness has created a renaissance of both commercial and academic activity that is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Because of this renewed interest and the resulting expansion in AM research and development, the editors of ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering thought it wasappropriate to publish a collection of manuscripts that represent the breadth of current research in the field to stimulate further research. Y. Lawrence Yao, the editor of the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, is seeking manuscripts representing the broad field of AM/3D printing for this special issue of the journal. The guest editors for the Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D Printing issue are Profs. Joe Beaman and Dave Bourell of the University of Texas at Austin, and Prof. Darrell Wallace of Youngstown State University and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Specific topic areas of interest to the editors include, but are not limited to, AM machine design and performance; AM process control and sensing, including cyber-enabled AM; materials development, characterization, and performance; design for AM; validation, verification and qualification of AM parts; modeling and simulation of AM processes; micro-AM processes; infrastructure of AM and supply-chain impact of AM; sustainability issues in AM; 3D representation of solid objects and slicing algorithms; and bio-additive manufacturing. Papers should be submitted in electronically by April 15 directly to the journal at http://journaltool.asme.org. When submitting your manuscript, remember to select Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering from the scroll-down menu and then select the special issue Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D Printing.