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Identification of an affordable and printable metastable β Ti alloy with outstanding deformation behaviour for use in laser powder bed fusion (2024)
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Research on metastable β Ti alloys has recently shown the possibility to achieve outstanding ductility and work hardening behaviours by engineering the materials’ unique strain transformable attributes and responses to heat treatment. As quenching is... Read More about Identification of an affordable and printable metastable β Ti alloy with outstanding deformation behaviour for use in laser powder bed fusion.

Martensite decomposition kinetics in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4 V alloy: in-situ characterisation and phase-field modelling (2024)
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Additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V alloy via laser powder-bed fusion leads to non-equilibrium 𝛼′ martensitic microstructures, with high strength but poor ductility and toughness. These properties may be modified by heat treatments, whereby the 𝛼′ ph... Read More about Martensite decomposition kinetics in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4 V alloy: in-situ characterisation and phase-field modelling.

Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates (2024)
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Copper, renowned for its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivity at a low cost, holds great promise in electronic applications. While additive manufacturing of copper has attracted interest, the exploration of applying Drop-on-demand Metal Je... Read More about Drop-on-demand metal jetting of pure copper: On the interaction of molten metal with ceramic and metallic substrates.

The development of ultrafine grain structure in an additively manufactured titanium alloy via high-temperature microscopy (2023)
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Microstructures dominated by acicular α' martensitic phase, such as in the case of Ti-6Al-4V fabricated by laser powder-bed fusion (PBF-LB), are known to suffer from reduced ductility and low toughness. The decomposition of such metastable microstruc... Read More about The development of ultrafine grain structure in an additively manufactured titanium alloy via high-temperature microscopy.

Facile manipulation of mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V through composition tailoring in laser powder bed fusion (2023)
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Ti-6Al-4 V alloy when processed by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a useful material which can be used for the manufacture of complex 3D components for aerospace and medical applications. LPBF fabricated Ti-6Al-4 V typically shows high tensile stre... Read More about Facile manipulation of mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V through composition tailoring in laser powder bed fusion.

Insights into drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing through an integrated experimental and computational study (2021)
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Drop-on-demand metal jetting is a recent additive manufacturing technology opening new opportunities for the fabrication of complex single and multi-metal components. MetalJet, the Océ developed technique used in this study, has the capacity to produ... Read More about Insights into drop-on-demand metal additive manufacturing through an integrated experimental and computational study.

Alloy design against the solidification cracking in fusion additive manufacturing: an application to a FeCrAl alloy (2021)
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This study developed a design methodology against liquid-state cracking by combining the Scheil–Gulliver solidification simulations and Machine Learning analysis to design alloys for Fusion Additive Manufacturing. Applying this design approach result... Read More about Alloy design against the solidification cracking in fusion additive manufacturing: an application to a FeCrAl alloy.

Microstructure and tensile properties of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V with refined prior-? grain structure obtained by rapid heat treatment (2021)
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Heat treatments tailored for additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V can be used to attain desirable microstructures associated with superior mechanical properties. Rapid heat treatments, for example, can be used to recrystallise the microstructure of laser... Read More about Microstructure and tensile properties of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V with refined prior-? grain structure obtained by rapid heat treatment.

On the use of small ring testing for the characterisation of elastic and yield material property variation in additively manufactured materials (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. The present work introduces a small volume, high throughput testing method that may be used to quickly, and with high spatial fidelity, investigate local material properties in additively manufactured materials. A case study appl... Read More about On the use of small ring testing for the characterisation of elastic and yield material property variation in additively manufactured materials.

The Influence of Iron in Minimizing the Microstructural Anisotropy of Ti-6Al-4V Produced by Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (2020)
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There remains a significant challenge in adapting alloys for metal based Additive Manufacturing (AM). Adjusting alloy composition to suit the process, particularly under regimes close to industrial practice, is therefore a potential solution. With th... Read More about The Influence of Iron in Minimizing the Microstructural Anisotropy of Ti-6Al-4V Produced by Laser Powder-Bed Fusion.

Refinement of the grain structure of additive manufactured titanium alloys via epitaxial recrystallization enabled by rapid heat treatment (2020)
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The coarse prior-? grain structure in titanium alloys produced by additive manufacturing is associated to mechanical anisotropy and limited fatigue life. Here we report a novel methodology to refine such structure by rapid heat treatment of Ti-6Al-4V... Read More about Refinement of the grain structure of additive manufactured titanium alloys via epitaxial recrystallization enabled by rapid heat treatment.

Evolution of carbon nanotubes and their metallurgical reactions in Al-based composites in response to laser irradiation during selective laser melting (2019)
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Aluminium-based composites reinforced with carbon nanotubes are widely sought for their outstanding metallurgical and structural properties that largely depend on the manufacturing route. In this work, the process-structure-property relationship for... Read More about Evolution of carbon nanotubes and their metallurgical reactions in Al-based composites in response to laser irradiation during selective laser melting.

3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), enable the fabrication of arbitrary 3D-structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Research is rapidly progressing in this field, with promis... Read More about 3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting.