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

Additive manufacturing (AM) is emerging as an alternative to conventional subtractive
manufacturing methods with the goal to deliver unique and complex net or near-net shaped …

Defects in additively manufactured materials are one of the leading sources of uncertainty in
mechanical fatigue. Fracture mechanics concepts are useful to evaluate their influence …

Despite the significant advantages such as rapid prototy** of complex structures,
engineering application of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique has been limited due to …

Introducing random defects is a type of the dominant causes of fatigue scatter of additive
manufacturing (AM) materials. The fracture mechanics-based models oversimplify the …

The effects of layer orientation and surface roughness on the mechanical properties and
fatigue life of 316L stainless steel (SS) fabricated via a laser beam powder bed fusion (LB …

Additive manufacturing (AM), which is a process of building objects in a layer‐upon‐layer
fashion from designed models, has received unprecedented attention from research and …

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

The aviation industry is a key market that promote additive manufacturing (AM) technology
since there are huge demands for precision manufacture of high-value complex structural …

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of AlSi10Mg alloy is widely studied for the aerospace and
automotive applications. Considering safety over cost, fatigue life of the material is very …