Metal additive manufacturing technologies keep receiving a great deal of interest as well as
strong requests to develop methods to link the process science to printed parts performance …

The physics of alloy solidification during additive manufacturing (AM) in methods such as
laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), electron beam powder bed fusion (EPBF), and laser …

The localized thermal characteristics, solidification parameters and the corresponding
microstructure depend highly on the process parameters in the laser powder-fed additive …

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, particularly laser powder-bed methods, have
shown tremendous advantages for producing high-value, complex, and customized …

Nucleation and grain growth during metal additive manufacturing (AM) still remain
debatable since the nature of rapid melting and solidification induced by laser-powder …

A major limitation of additive manufacturing (AM) processes is that local conditions of
material deposition frequently lead to unintentional heterogeneities in microstructure and …

Metal additive manufacturing has seen extensive research and rapidly growing applications
for its high precision, efficiency, flexibility, etc. However, the appealing advantages are still …

Process optimization for directed-energy-deposition, an industrial laser-based additive
manufacturing technique, is a time-intensive endeavor for manufacturers. Herein we …

As a promising additive manufacturing technique, laser-based directed energy deposition
has been widely applied in part fabrication, surface cladding, and part restoration. During …

Gaussian laser intensity profiles are standard in laser-based metal additive manufacturing,
although recent work in single-layer melt tracks showed that beam shaping could offer a …