Our contribution in metal additive manufacturing is more active and more findings are published in various journal. Before end of 2025, two more articles were published. The first paper is part of PhD works by Jiang Aimin and the second paper is an outcome of final year project and polished by Dr Anwar. Congratulations to the team for the good effort and hope for the best in the next year.

1. Aimin J, Abdullah AB, Mohd Yusuf S. Microstructures and mechanical properties of 316LSi/IN625 FGMs manufactured by CMT-WAAM. Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 2025;17(12). doi:10.1177/16878132251401756

2. Wei Joshua Lee Jet, Mokhtar Mohzani bin, Abdullah Ahmad Baharuddin, Anshari Md Anwar Ali, steel research int., 2025, 0, e202500837. https://doi.org/10.1002/srin.202500837

The Metal Forming Research Group (MFRL) progress for the last 15 years is very good. Begins with metal forming and forging processes related research to recently new area, which is metal additive manufacturing, a promosing growth was observed. From just 1 Master (local) student in 2014 to now 11 students  from various countries around the globe, depicted the recognition and significance of the group and the work carried out. Hope for more in year 2026.

Congrats all members of MFRL. 

Today is the last group meeting for 2025. The group is now becamed international as majority of the members are expatriate. Due to that reason as well, the meeting lately run in online mode. Hopefully we will have first graduate from one of them soon. 

Please note that two more Malaysian students were not join the meeting due to some reasons.

On 28-29th of October 2025. I had an opportunity to joined 2 conferences held at Bangi. At International Conference of Sugar Palm and Natural Fiber Polymer Composites, which was organized Persatuan Pembangunan Industri Enau Malaysia (PPIEM), I have shared a talk on Machining of Biocomposite Material: Potential of Applications and Challenges. At the SHIFT, I have presented our recent research title Automotive Part Repair using Metal Additive Manufacturing. Main purposes of the participation is to share our research, seek for collaborators and most improtantly make the  Metal Forming Research Lab (MFRL) USM visible.