About the Proceedings
Since its establishment in 2018, the HI-AM Conference has served as a key academic event in Canada, dedicated exclusively to sharing advancements in research and development in the field of additive manufacturing (AM). This conference provides a valuable platform for researchers, industry professionals, and academics to engage with the latest innovations and trends in the field.
Between 2018 and 2024, the conference featured research abstracts exclusively in its conference booklets. Past programs and abstracts are accessible from the conference website. Beginning with the 2025 edition, the conference will introduce proceedings, including peer-reviewed short manuscripts of accepted presentations.
The HI-AM Conference is a key component of the HI-AM 2.0 Project, a research initiative funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), focused on advancing the industrial adoption of metal AM through research and development. The conference serves as a platform for sharing research findings from HI-AM 2.0 groups and external experts contributing to the field.
The conference covers a broad range of topics from various engineering and scientific disciplines, including mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, data science, and machine learning. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Additive manufacturing technologies: powder bed fusion (laser, electron beam), directed energy deposition (laser, electron beam, arc-based), cold spray and solid-state AM, binder jetting, material jetting, material extrusion, vat photopolymerization, hybrid processes
- Materials for additive manufacturing and material-specific process development: metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, biomaterials, functional and advanced materials, multi-material systems
- Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM)
- Material, process, and component modeling
- Metrology, control, and quality assurance
- Characterization and post-processing
- Additive manufacturing applications: aerospace, automotive, medical and biomedical, energy and natural resources, consumer products
Current Issue
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Proceedings of the 8th Holistic Innovation in Additive Manufacturing Conference (HI-AM 2025), held on July 23–24, 2025, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This inaugural volume of the HI-AM Conference Proceedings showcases a selection of research contributions presented at this year’s event, marking a significant milestone in advancing the field of additive manufacturing.
The papers in this collection embody the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of additive manufacturing research, featuring cutting-edge advancements in materials, processes, design methodologies, and innovative applications. These works reflect the collaborative spirit and forward-looking vision of the global research community gathered at HI-AM 2025.
We express our deepest gratitude to the authors for their outstanding contributions, the reviewers for their rigorous and insightful feedback, and the associate editors for their dedicated efforts in overseeing the review process and upholding the high standards of this publication. We hope these proceedings will serve both as a valuable record of the ideas and collaborations sparked at HI-AM 2025 and as a catalyst for continued innovation within the additive manufacturing community.
Ehsan Toyserkani, PhD, PEng
Mihaela Vlasea, PhD
Editors-in-Chief, HI-AM Conference Proceedings
