Surface finish improvement of LMD samples using laser polishing

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 215-221

  Dadbakhsh, Sasan ^a   Hao, Liang ^a   Kong, Choon Yen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design of experiments (DoE); Laser energy; Laser metal deposition (LMD); Laser polishing; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INCONEL-718; LASER ENERGIES; LASER ENERGY; LASER METAL DEPOSITION; LASER METAL DEPOSITION (LMD); LASER POLISHING; LASER SCANNED; METALLIC PART; PROCESS PARAMETERS; ROUGH SURFACES; SURFACE FINISHES; SURFACE POLISHING; TOP SURFACE;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; METAL ANALYSIS; POLISHING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 78149421041     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2010.528180     Document Type: Article

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