High specific strength and stiffness structures produced using selective laser melting

Materials and Design

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 783-788

  Challis, Vivien J ^a   Xu, Xiaoxue ^b,d   Zhang, Lai Chang ^c   Roberts, Anthony P ^a   Grotowski, Joseph F ^a   Sercombe, Timothy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; COMPRESSION TESTING; MELTING; STRAIN ENERGY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TOPOLOGY;

HIGH POROSITY; HIGH SPECIFIC STRENGTH; HIGH STIFFNESS; MECHANICAL COMPRESSION TESTS; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING; SPECIFIC STRENGTH; STRAIN ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 84910147150     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2014.05.064     Document Type: Article

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