Metal additive manufacturing is a disruptive technology that is revolutionizing the
manufacturing industry. Despite its unrivaled capability for directly fabricating metal parts …

Remanufacturing, the process of transforming end-of-life and end-of-use components into
reusable ones, is gaining prominence as one of the essential elements for achieving …

Friction stir welding and processing enabled the creation of stronger joints, novel ultrafine-
grained metals, new metal matrix composites, and multifunctional surfaces at user-defined …

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) encapsulates the myriad of manufacturing processes
available to meet industrial needs. Determining which of these AM processes is best for a …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has completely altered the traditional component
manufacturing and qualification paradigm. It provides unitisation and topological …

As the forging counterpart of fusion-based additive processes, additive friction stir deposition
offers a solid-state deformation processing route to metal additive manufacturing, in which …

Friction stir additive manufacturing (FSAM) method is one of the growing techniques of
additive manufacturing that utilizes the concept of solid state friction stir processing to …

Increasing demand of lightweight structures with exceptional properties elicits materials
processing and manufacturing technologies to tailor blanks in order to achieve or enhance …

Among metal additive manufacturing technologies, additive friction stir deposition stands out
for its ability to create freeform and fully-dense structures without melting and solidification …

Additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) is a novel thermo-mechanical solid state additive
manufacturing process. AFSD enables manufacturing of near net shape, fully dense builds …