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Additive Manufacturing: A Review of the Influence of Building Orientation and Post Heat Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of Aluminium Alloys

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Selective laser melting is one of the powder bed-based processes that allows a layered fabrication of components, which has become the most widely utilized additive manufacturing technique for metal processing. The ability to create futuristic designs and non-standard topology-optimized structures is one of the biggest advantages of additive manufacturing. On the other hand, one of the major challenges is to account for the anisotropic and inhomogeneous material properties. This work presents an overview of the most relevant studies, concerning the influence of building directions and post heat treatments on the mechanical properties of selective laser melted aluminium alloys.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Hochschule Esslingen, Kanalstrasse 33, 73728, Esslingen, Germany

    Enes Sert & Andreas Öchsner

  2. Institute of Materials Science and Mechanics of Materials, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstrasse 15, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Leonhard Hitzler & Ewald Werner

  3. Institute for Virtual Product Development, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Markus Merkel

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Sert, E., Öchsner, A., Hitzler, L., Werner, E., Merkel, M. (2019). Additive Manufacturing: A Review of the Influence of Building Orientation and Post Heat Treatment on the Mechanical Properties of Aluminium Alloys. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) State of the Art and Future Trends in Material Modeling . Advanced Structured Materials, vol 100. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30355-6_14

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