Researchers have resolved a long-standing debate surrounding laser additive manufacturing processes with a pioneering approach to defect detection. Researchers from EPFL have resolved a long-standing ...

Laser-based manufacturing and materials processing technology has proven to be a well-established and cutting-edge technology ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is booming. According to a recent report from Persistence Market Research, the sector is currently on pace to grow by more than 22% this year and is expected to double in ...

Engineers have succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects by irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam (i.e., a laser beam whose ...

German “AM2H2” project is developing multi-material energy converter to boost production efficiency. In the AM2H2 project, the LZH is working on a multi-material energy converter for the more ...

Additive manufacturing is a process where additional material is added onto metal surfaces to create 3D structures or enhance surface quality. Common welding methods, such as beam and arc welding, can ...

The last decade has witnessed a huge development in additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing when compared with its counterpart, subtractive manufacturing. AM enables rapid prototyping, ease of ...

Brendan Croom, a senior materials scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is pictured in APL’s X-ray Computed Tomography Laboratory, where high-resolution imaging helps researchers ...