Partial melting and resolidification of metal powder in selective laser sintering

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-448

  Xiao, Bin ^a,b   Zhang, Yuwen ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; SINTERING; SOLIDIFICATION;

LASER SINTERING; POWDER BED; RESOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE TRANSFORMING MODEL;

POWDER METALS;

CAPILLARITY; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; POWDER METALS; SINTERING; SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 33747050719     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17904     Document Type: Article

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