3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting

• Published in: Progress in materials science Vol. 106; p. 100578
• Main Authors: Aboulkhair, Nesma T., Simonelli, Marco, Parry, Luke, Ashcroft, Ian, Tuck, Christopher, Hague, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier BV 01.12.2019
• Subjects: Additive manufacturing; Alloy systems; Aluminum base alloys; Laser beam melting; Lasers; Materials science; Rapid prototyping; Three dimensional printing

Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), enable the fabrication of arbitrary 3D-structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Research is rapidly progressing in this field, with promising results opening up a range of possible applications across both s...