Selective laser melting (SLM) is a powder bed fusion type metal additive manufacturing
process which is being applied to manufacture highly customised and value-added parts in …

Structural components with different scales normally show different fatigue behaviors, which
are virtually dominated by defects originated from multiple sources, including manufacturing …

Stir casting is an economical process for the fabrication of aluminum matrix composites.
There are many parameters in this process, which affect the final microstructure and …

Additive manufacturing has advantages of cutting the time from design to making new parts
but it suffers from metallurgical defects such as porosity. For example, wired arc additive …

Engineering components made of ductile cast irons and aluminum alloys, show fatigue lives
which are normally dominated by crack initiation from defects raised by manufacturing …

The estimation of uncertainty in fatigue life prediction is a decision-making factor in structural
design. The problem is specific in the case of multiaxial loading owing to the complex …

This third part of the review on defects as root cause of fatigue failure addresses cavities
(pores, micro-shrinkages, unmelted regions), defective microstructures and microcracks as …

To better understand the influence of Fe-rich intermetallics on solidification defect formation,
fast in situ synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy experiments were performed on a …

The effect of Fe-content on the fatigue damage evolution in a cast A356–T6 alloy was
investigated both experimentally and through microscale finite element simulations. High …

Residual defects in additively manufactured metal parts are known to degrade fatigue
performance. In this work, pores and oxide particles in AlSi10Mg parts produced by selective …