Thermal behavior and densification mechanism during selective laser melting of copper matrix composites: Simulation and experiments

Materials and Design

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 482-491

  Dai, Donghua ^a   Gu, Dongdong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Marangoni flow; Metal matrix composites; Numerical simulation; Selective laser melting

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; LASER BEAMS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VISCOUS FLOW;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; COPPER MATRIX COMPOSITE; DENSIFICATION MECHANISMS; DENSIFICATION PROCESS; GAUSSIAN ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; MARANGONI FLOWS; MAXIMUM RELATIVE DENSITY; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING;

LAKES;

EID: 84886999349     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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