Review of state-of-the-art research on the design and manufacturing of support structures for powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing

HR Javidrad, F Javidrad - Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 2023 - Springer
The use of support structures is an essential requirement for powder-bed fusion additive
manufacturing (AM) processes. Supports are responsible for fixing the component on the …

CAD-based design and pre-processing tools for additive manufacturing

B Zhang, A Goel, O Ghalsasi, S Anand - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper discusses a set of geometry based computational pre-processing algorithms
developed for Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing (PBFAM) processes. To start with …

Production of corrosion-resistant 316L stainless steel clads on carbon steel using powder bed fusion-selective laser melting

P Murkute, S Pasebani, OB Isgor - Journal of Materials Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
Powder bed fusion-selective laser melting (PBF-SLM) was used to produce corrosion-
resistant 316L stainless steel clads on 1018 carbon steel substrates. The PBF-SLM …

A review on design and removal of support structures in metal additive manufacturing

J Zhang, Q Cao, WF Lu - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2022 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the rapid fabrication of complex metallic components
via a layer-by-layer method. Support structures are essential to ensure the successful …

[HTML][HTML] Removability of 316L stainless steel cone and block support structures fabricated by Selective Laser Melting (SLM)

Q Cao, Y Bai, J Zhang, Z Shi, JYH Fuh, H Wang - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Support structures are needed due to the complexities of induced structural, thermal and
process factors in Selective Laser Melting (SLM). To date, little systematic study is found to …

A hybrid of genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for reducing material waste in extrusion-basedadditive manufacturing

R Feng, J Jiang, Z Sun, A Thakur, X Wei - Rapid Prototyping Journal, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the design of a lightweight tree-shaped
support structure for fused deposition modeling (FDM) three-dimensional (3D) printed …

A kinematics-aware part clustering approach for part integration using additive manufacturing

W Pan, WF Lu - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2021 - Elsevier
Part integration is to integrate parts to be a fabrication and assembly unit. It can effectively
reduce the fabrication and assembly unit quantity of a product and has been deemed as an …

Additive manufacturing simulation tools in education

S Anand, O Ghalsasi, B Zhang, A Goel… - 2018 World …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Additive Manufacturing is becoming a strategic initiative to enable the transformation of
today's business into a digital enterprise. This technology is increasing the rate of innovation …

Optimisation of part orientation and design of support structures in laser powder bed fusion

M Mele, G Campana, A Bergmann - International Journal on Interactive …, 2022 - Springer
Part orientation and support structures are crucial to the quality of metal parts by laser
powder bed fusion. Computer-aided solutions for part orientation can be used to support …

Simulation-based analysis for the machining of thin-walled, additively manufactured support structures

E Jaeger, JA Bergmann, P Wiederkehr - Procedia CIRP, 2023 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing processes, such as Selective Laser Melting (SLM), have increasingly
found their way into production. In particular, the high degree of geometric freedom offers …