Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is widely recognised as a new industrial revolution 1 in the manufacture of components and products. There are, however, some issues that are not due to the ...

With the rise of additive technologies, the characterization of metal powders is increasingly required. There is a need to precisely match the properties of metal powders to a specific machine and to ...

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing process that builds parts by layer-by-layer spreading and selective laser melting of metal powders. The characteristics of the powder bed ...

Metal powders are used to produce a variety of industrial parts and products. A number of techniques are used to manufacture parts from metal powders, with two popular techniques being sintering and ...