Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Thermodynamics-guided alloy and process design for additive manufacturing

  • Zhongji Sun,
  • Yan Ma,
  • Dirk Ponge,
  • Stefan Zaefferer,
  • Eric A. Jägle,
  • Baptiste Gault,
  • Anthony D. Rollett,
  • Dierk Raabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31969-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Production defects prevent many industrially important materials from being adopted by metal additive manufacturing. Here, the authors propose a universal thermodynamics-guided alloy design approach to assist the discovery of crack-free materials.