Experimental design approach to optimize selective laser melting of martensitic 17-4 PH powder: Part i - Single laser tracks and first layer

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-37

  Averyanova, M ^a   Cicala, E ^b   Bertrand, Ph ^a   Grevey, Dominique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^c LABORATOIRE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE CARNOT DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Manufacturing systems; Martensitic steel; Selective laser melting; Sintering; SLM; Steels

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL EXPERIMENTS; FRACTIONAL FACTORIALS; GEOMETRICAL STABILITY; MAIN PROCESS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIALS PARAMETERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL SETS; PH STEEL; POWDER PARTICLES; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING; SINGLE LASERS; SINGLE LAYER; SLM;

DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MANUFACTURE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MELTING; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SINTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; STEEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MARTENSITIC STEEL;

EID: 84855827243     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552541211193476     Document Type: Article

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