Metal additive manufacturing (AM) refers to any process of making 3D metal parts layer-
upon-layer via the interaction between a heating source and feeding material from a digital …

High deposition rate laser directed energy deposition (HDR-DED) technology, including
powder-and wire-based laser directed energy deposition, has emerged recently to fulfil the …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained attention in recent decades. Due to excellent
mechanical and thermal properties, pure copper and its alloys are widely in nuclear and …

The microstructure evolution and crack propagation behavior were systematically and
thoroughly investigated in α/β Ti-6Al-4V alloy obtained under the inhomogeneous heating …

Owing to the great technical significance such as better balance of strength and toughness,
the conversion of lamellar to globular microstructure finds its great importance. In order to …

In this work, electron beam melting (EBM) titanium alloy were strengthened by carrying out a
hollow cathodic plasma source nitriding treatment. The EBM-TC4 alloys were nitrided at …

Abstract As-built Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) Ti-6Al-4V typically exhibits a fully acicular
α′-martensite microstructure, and requires post-process heat treatment in order to …

The α/β interface is central to the microstructure and mechanical properties of titanium
alloys. We investigate the structure, thermodynamics and migration of the coherent and …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a kind of popular additive manufacturing process to
fabricate sophisticated components in recent years. However, it is still challenging to …

Directed energy deposition is a promising additive manufacturing technology that fabricates
complex geometries by fusing feed material layer-by-layer. However, the formation …