The application of new secondary refining techniques and non-metallic inclusion reduction
techniques in steel production processes has greatly reduced the size and amount of non …

Metallurgical defects have a critical influence on the anisotropic fatigue resistance of
additively manufactured parts under cyclic loading. Here X-ray computed tomography (CT) …

Historically, SN curve has been expressed in the form of an exponential relationship
between applied stress σ and number of cycles to failure N f. This paper elucidates the …

Fatigue life prediction is critical for the design of engineering components made from
defective materials. Not only do these imperfections show a detrimental effect on the fatigue …

Additive manufacturing allows the production of complex components for critical applications
such as in the aerospace industry. Laser powder bed fusion is the most widely used form of …

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a net-shape AM technology to produce metal parts also for
load-carrying applications. The present work is aimed at investigating the fatigue …

This study investigated the effects of the 'as-built'condition on the fatigue properties of an
AlSi 10 Mg aluminium alloy manufactured by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) in different …

The high potential of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques offers novel opportunities and
unexplored design freedom. However, typical internal defects and poor surface quality …

The progressive improvement of additive manufacturing (AM) techniques enables the
production of geometrically complex and lightweight parts, which explains the incredibly fast …

Dielectric properties of heterogeneous materials for various condensed-matter systems have
been gaining world-wide attention over the past 50 or so years in the design (or …