Crystallographic Variability in Additive Manufacturing

Abstract The crystallographic textures produced during additive manufacturing can be understood, predicted, and manipulated by varying the grain nucleation growth processes. resultant are primarily dictated melt pool geometry, which defines local thermal gradient thus preferred crystal directions, as well scan strategy, controls propagation of orientations into subsequent layers. This texture diluted through heterogeneous new orientations, occur a variety mechanisms. ability to control enable location-specific properties function position in build.