Chris Fancher

May 25, 2023 | liebertpub.com | Peter Wang |Gordon Robertson |Brian Gibson |Chris Fancher

IntroductionPowder bed fusion (PBF) has become one of the most widely adopted additive manufacturing processes for the production of aerospace and biomedical products that require customized and/or complex structures fabricated from a wide variety of metal alloys.1–3 Numerous investigations into the productivity and cost of traditional laser PBF (LPBF) have been explored,3–7 as both are impediments to broader adoption by industry for the traditional Cartesian LPBF architectures.