Investigation the Effect of Particle Size Distribution on Processing Parameters Optimisation in Selective Laser Melting Process

By Bochuan Liu, Ricky Wildman, Christopher John Tuck, Ian Ashcroft, Richard J. M. Hague. 2011

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Citations in the corpus

• Development of Micro Selective Laser Melting: The State of the Art and Future Perspectives (2019, methodology): “[71] investigated the effect of the laser beam diameter in SLM using SS 316L powders.”
• Measurement Science Needs for Real-time Control of Additive Manufacturing Powder Bed Fusion Processes (2015, background): “, with a higher relative powder density, resulted in higher part density requiring less laser energy intensity [40].”
• Powders for powder bed fusion: a review (2019, background): “In the same time, they find that a wider PSD is connected with a higher powder bed density, higher density of the parts, and smoother surfaces of the surfaces parallel to the build direction [77].”
• Additive manufacturing of metallic components – Process, structure and properties (2018, background): “However, very high heat input can be detrimental for surface finish due to high thermal stresses and non-uniform solidification rate [53].”
• Fatigue of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V, Part I: The effects of powder feedstock, manufacturing, and post-process conditions on the resulting microstructure and defects (2020, background): “Liu et al. [101] showed that a narrower particle size distribution increased the flow-ability of the powder and resulted in parts with increased hardness and tensile strength.”
• An overview of powder granulometry on feedstock and part performance in the selective laser melting process (2017, methodology): “[85] compared 316L grades with different distribution widths and reported better part densification results in the wider distributed powder (SO) at scan rates >150mm/s while the narrower grade (LPW) performed better at a slower scan speed (100mm/s) (Refer to Figure 34).”