Title: New Advances in Additive Manufacturing-Based Design and Manufacturing of Aerospace Alloys

Speaker: Prof. Lu Jian

Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 14:00-17:00 (Admission from 13:30, 30 minutes in advance)

Venue: Main Building A415, Shahe Campus

Organized by:

Publicity Department of the CPC Beihang University Committee

School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University

Abstract:

The combination of advanced structural materials and additive manufacturing offers new opportunities for developing energy-efficient aerospace systems. The lecture will outline emerging trends in nanostructured functional and structural materials featuring ultra-nano dual-phase microstructures enabled by additive manufacturing, including materials and structures with broad application potential in aerospace and low-altitude economy via nanoparticle incorporation. As a core enabling technology in advanced manufacturing, metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) is driving a transformative shift in strategic industries such as aerospace and high-end equipment from conventional machining toward precision intelligent manufacturing.

Following the approach of "technology advancement — bottleneck mitigation — intelligent integration — future outlook," this lecture will focus on key topics including process characteristics of additive manufacturing, metamaterial design and artificial intelligence integration. It will systematically review the features of mainstream processes, strategies for typical defect control, principles for tuning material properties, and the development of metamaterials, and conclude with application scenarios of AI across the full additive manufacturing workflow, alongside the design, fabrication and validation of ultra-high specific-strength titanium alloys.

About the Speaker:

Lu Jian, Chair Professor of City University of Hong Kong, Academician of the National Academy of Technologies of France. He formerly served as Vice President (Research and Technology) and Dean of the College of Engineering of City University of Hong Kong, and Chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (HKSTAM). He is also a member of the Science and Technology Committee of the World New Energy Vehicle Congress. 

His research involves the preparation and mechanical properties of advanced metallic materials, and 2D/3D/4D printing. He has published more than 650 papers in journals such as Nature (cover story), Science, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, PNAS, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, and PRL, with more than 60,000 citations. He was selected as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2025 and a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar (Top 0.05%), and has obtained 95 granted invention patents in Europe, the United States (55), and China.

He was elected Academician of the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) in 2011, and was elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE) in 2012, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in 2025, and the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS) in 2026. He was appointed by the President of France to receive the French Knight Order of National Merit (2006) and the French Knight of the National Order of Légion d'Honneur (2017). In 2018, he received the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Editor: Liu Tingting