1. Metal additive manufacturing: Motivation, process portfolio, and application potential 2. Powders for metal additive manufacturing 3. Wires for metal additive manufacturing 4. Processing of high-performance materials by electron beam-powder bed fusion 5. Processing of high-performance materials by laser beam-powder bed fusion 6. Processing of high-performance materials by laser-directed energy deposition with powders 7. Processing of high-performance materials by laser directed energy deposition with wire 8. Surface posttreatment of additively manufactured components 9. Thermal post-treatment of additively manufactured components 10. Mechanical properties of AM-produced components of high-performance materials 11. Modeling and simulation of microstructures in metal additive manufacturing 12. Process modeling of powder bed and directed energy deposition 13. Monitoring and control of directed energy deposition using a laser beam 14. Nondestructive evaluation of additively manufactured components 15. Applications of additive manufacturing: Some case studies and future prospects