The accelerated growth of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies has greatly aided the
expansion of the affiliated manufacturing industry, leading to cost savings in labor, materials …

Additive manufacturing is an emerging technique for manufacturing complex shapes rather
than traditional manufacturing procedures due to the tool free manufacturing method. The …

Surface defects like porosity, cracks, coarse grains, surface roughness, etc. have a huge
impact on the strength and performance of materials. Due to this, surface treatments have …

This review summarizes the recent research progress on the post-processing techniques to
improve the as-built metallic structure fabricated by additive manufacturing. The …

A major problem of additively manufactured parts using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is
the as-built high surface roughness. The poor surface finishing is detrimental to the …

Most metal AM technologies are rapidly approaching, and in some cases even exceeding
the Technology Readiness Level 8, indicating that they are widely available and capable of …

The laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technique is used for fabricating complex features
compared to traditional manufacturing processes. Besides several advantages, LPBF …

Numerous studies on the corrosion response of metal AM have been conducted.
Nonetheless, the specimens being tested are commonly ground or polished to remove the …

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), or selective laser melting, can be used to significantly
reduce the size and weight of hydraulic components. However, the current design approach …

This investigation is to calculate the effective factors of the electropolishing by using the full
factorial design for UNS N08367. In addition, based on the calculated effective factors, the …