Polymer composites–Special issue review for additive manufacturing of composites

Abstract

This special issue of Polymer Composites on “Additive Manufacturing of Composites” seeks to provide insight into recent advances in the field of additive manufacturing (AM), often termed 3D printing, using composite materials. We hope this issue provides help to the practicing engineer, material suppliers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Tier-1 suppliers, academics and scientists, and others with an interest in using or applying AM to their products and systems. This issue presents new materials, new material systems, enhancements of the final part performance, novel manufacturing methods, and applications, and improvements of existing manufacturing methods for AM. Solutions are presented by the research community to solve specific scientific and engineering challenges within the field in this issue. This issue is highlighted by several review articles on recent advances within the field of polymer composite additive manufacturing.