Additive Manufacturing in Industry

The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) processes applied to the fabrication structural components has created need for design methodologies and optimization approaches that take into account specific characteristics process. While AM give unprecedented geometrical freedom, which can result in significant reductions components’ weight (e.g., through part count reduction), on other hand, they have implications fatigue fracture strength, because residual stresses microstructural features. This is due stress concentration effects, anisotropy, distortions defects whose effects still investigation. Special Issue aims at gathering together research investigating different features with relevance their behavior, particularly, but not exclusively, from viewpoints fatigue, crash behavior. Although focus this AM, articles dealing related analogies also be included, order establish differences possible similarities.