Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, Inverse Methods and Machine Learning, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2025 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of five from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies, including:

• Novel Structures and Designs of Additive and Advanced Materials
• Process-Property-Structure Relationships of Additive and Advanced Materials
• Novel Test Methods of Additive and Advanced Materials
• Additive Manufacturing: Composites
• Test Design and Inverse Method Algorithms
• Machine Learning