As important structural materials widely used in aerospace and automotive industries,
aluminum alloys are perfect candidates for development of laser metal additive …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is the most widely used additive manufacturing technique
and has received increasing attention owing to the high design freedom it offers. The …

AlSi10Mg manufactured by laser powder bed fusion (or selective laser melting) benefits from
a very fine microstructure that imparts significant mechanical strength to the material …

Aluminum alloys are key materials in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies thanks to
their low density that, coupled with the possibility to create complex geometries of these …

Laser-based metal additive manufacturing technology, which is represented by laser
powder bed fusion (LPBF) and direct energy deposition (DED), has been widely used in …

The unprecedented increase in component design space has led to significant focus on
fusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. The new design possibilities …

To identify the dominant contributing factor in the anomalously high strength of Al–Si-based
alloys fabricated by selective laser melting (SLM), microstructural characteristics of a SLM …

Metal additive manufacturing offers a tool to bring formerly unmanufacturable, geometrically
complex, engineered structures into existence. However, considerable challenges remain in …

As industries are increasingly adopting the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive
manufacturing (AM) process, it is crucial to understand the process closely and to find ways …

The present work demonstrates a novel interpretation of the effect of well-known heat
treatments of solutionizing (ST) and solutionizing plus aging (T6) along with a newly …