A Review on Laser Beam Shaping Application in Laser‐Powder Bed Fusion

AR Bakhtari, HK Sezer, OE Canyurt… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Laser‐powder bed fusion (L‐PBF) is extensively adopted in the aerospace and automobile
industries for producing metallic components. The L‐PBF process involves rapid melting …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring spatial beam shaping in laser powder bed fusion: High-fidelity simulation and in-situ monitoring

M Bayat, R Rothfelder, K Schwarzkopf, A Zinoviev… - Additive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Laser beam shaping is a novel and relatively unexplored method for controlling the melt
pool conditions during metal additive manufacturing (MAM) processes, but even so it still …

Generating brick-like melt pools for Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion using flexible beam shaping: a proof of concept on bead-on-plate single tracks

J Grünewald, R Prudlik, V Holla, P Kopp, R Off, T Stoll… - Procedia CIRP, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the highest industrial maturity among additive manufacturing processes, laser-
based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M) lacks the productivity to further establish as …

Identification of a descriptive beam size metric for complex beam shapes

L Chechik, M Schmidt - Procedia CIRP, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditionally, in laser processing, simple beam profiles such as Gaussian beam profiles or
top-hat profiles have been widely used. Recently, more complex beam shapes have been …