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 one of the major additive manufacturing techniques that
industries have adopted to produce complex metal components. The scientific and industrial …

Additive manufacturing (AM) of metallic alloys for structural and functional applications has
attracted significant interest in the last two decades as it brings a step change in the …

Whilst the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) of aluminum alloys is relatively slower
compared with that of steels and titanium alloys, it has undergone a flourishing trend in the …

Research on powder-based additive manufacturing of aluminium alloys is rapidly
increasing, and recent breakthroughs in printing of defect-free parts promise substantial …

One of the less desirable aspects of fusion-based additive manufacturing is the propensity
for coarse columnar grain structures crossing build layers to form. This paper initially …

Selective laser melting (SLM) is an emerging layer-wise additive manufacturing technique
that can generate complex components with high performance. Particulate-reinforced …

Anisotropy in mechanical properties is one of the critical issues in metal additive
manufacturing (AM) impeding the wider application of parts fabricated using this …

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

Grain refinement is one of the most effective approaches to improving mechanical
properties, reducing anisotropy and hot-cracking of additively manufactured alloys. Recent …