Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), a powder bed-based additive manufacturing (AM) technology, has been used to create complicated geometric metallic components. Due to the increased need for producing ...

A NIMS research team fabricated heat-resistant steel test specimens using laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)—a form of metal 3D printing—and subjected them to creep testing for up to 10,000 hours.

Keyhole porosity in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), a process used in additive manufacturing to make metal parts, has been better-understood thanks to a new study published in Nature Communications.

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.210058 discusses formation, evaluation, and influence of porosity in metals additively manufactured by laser powder bed fusion.

In additive manufacturing (AM), metal parts are commonly 3D-printed using a fabrication technique called “laser powder bed fusion” (LPBF). LPBF involves repeated rapid metal powder melting and ...

A new approach to beam shaping will soon make additive manufacturing more flexible and efficient: the Fraunhofer ILT (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology) has developed a new platform to ...

Discover the differences between Directed Energy Deposition (DED) and Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) simulations and focus on the challenges and advancements in additive manufacturing. When it ...

Harmonizing sound and light: X-ray imaging unveils acoustic signatures of stochastic inter-regime instabilities during laser melting. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023 ...

A paper recently published in the journal Additive Manufacturing discussed the laser powder-bed-fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) technique for three-dimensional (3D) printing of high-quality ...