Selective Laser Melting of Aluminum, Hastelloy X, Tool Steel and Cobalt-Chrome: Compositional Modification and use of Base Plate Preheating KU Leuven
Selective laser melting (SLM) is an emerging additive manufacturing production technique for metals, offering a perfect solution for production of small quantity series and complex part geometries. Examples are production of spare parts or custom made biomedical objects.
One of the main drawback at this point is the limited number of materials that are processable using SLM. Specific knowledge that is acquired within SLM of one material ...