Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has made significant progress in producing solid and
porous metal parts with complex shapes and geometries. However, LPBF produced parts …

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a particular rapid prototyping, 3D printing, or Additive
Manufacturing (AM) technique designed to use high power-density laser to melt and fuse …

Selective laser melting (SLM) of pure tungsten was carried out and the relevant
consolidation issues were investigated. It was observed that balling of melted droplets at the …

Tungsten (W) materials are gaining more and more attention due to the extended
applications of metallic systems in the extreme environments. Given W's unique …

Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing technique which enables
fabrication of three dimensional objects by selectively melting successive layers of metallic …

Selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing of pure tungsten encounters nearly all
intractable difficulties of SLM metals fields due to its intrinsic properties. The key factors …

Unique crystal textures formed by selective laser melting of a CoCrMo alloy were
characterized by electron backscattered diffraction. Preferred crystallographic orientations …

The preferred plasma-facing material in present-day and future magnetic confinement
thermonuclear fusion devices is tungsten. This material is mainly chosen because of its high …

Additive manufacturing (AM) allows for layer-by-layer fabrication of complex metallic parts
with features typically unobtainable via conventional manufacturing. For heat exchangers …

Tungsten is receiving increasing interest as a plasma facing material in the ITER fusion
reactor, collimators, and other structural, high temperature applications. Concurrently, there …