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

Additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic components offers many advantages over
conventional manufacturing methods, most notably design freedom at little material waste …

This article reviews published data on the mechanical properties of additively manufactured
metallic materials. The additive manufacturing techniques utilized to generate samples …

Predicting mechanical properties in metal additive manufacturing (MAM) is essential for
ensuring the performance and reliability of printed parts, as well as their suitability for …

Current post-process heat treatments applied to selective laser melting produced Ti-6Al-4V
do not achieve the same microstructure and therefore superior tensile behaviour of …

This paper describes a hybrid additive manufacturing process–3D Laser Shock Peening (3D
LSP), based on the integration of Laser Shock Peening (LSP) with selective laser melting …

The paper describes a new approach in controlling and tailoring residual stress profile of
parts made by Selective Laser Melting (SLM). SLM parts are well known for the high tensile …

Adopting new metals 3D printers introduces time and cost obstacles to printing parts with the
same quality as was attained on existing printers. A large number of trial-and-error …

Abstract The Stellenbosch University CT Scanner Facility is an open access laboratory
providing non-destructive X-ray computed tomography (CT) and a high performance image …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has garnered increasing attention in academic and research
projects, based on its unique characteristics and favorable capabilities. Although three …