Metal additive manufacturing is a disruptive technology that is revolutionizing the
manufacturing industry. Despite its unrivaled capability for directly fabricating metal parts …

Numerical simulations have recently shown their potential as a robust, cheap and reliable
tool for predicting the quality of components produced by metal additive manufacturing …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a key metal additive manufacturing process and has
attracted increasing attention both in academia and industry. An essential physical issue …

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a 3D printing technology with a high near-net-shape ability
and forming accuracy. However, the inevitable internal defects significantly hinder its …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology has the potential to revolutionize the fabrication
of complex metal components in the aerospace, medical, and automotive industries …

Due to the high efficiency and low cost, gas atomization (GA) has been widely applied to
produce metal powders. In this paper, the GA process is first modeled by combining the …

Depending on processing conditions, laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is known to have two
operational regimes–conduction mode and keyhole mode. Heat conduction is the dominant …

Direct energy deposition (DED) is a promising additive manufacturing technology for large-
scale fabrications of high-value components. Grain structure control is challenging but …

Residual stresses and deflections are two major issues in laser-based powder bed fusion (L-
PBF) parts. One of the most efficient and reliable ways for predicting residual stresses and …

The success of laser-foil-printing (LFP) additive manufacturing depends critically on the
laser welding of sheet metals onto the substrate or the previous layer during the part …