Abstract The direct laser metal deposition (DLMD) is an additive manufacturing technology, based on cladding, which focuses mainly 3D applications. DLMD allows the production of thin-walled components by overlaying single-track depositions. Several issues can affect process and compromise flatness surface subsequent tracks will be deposited. This work focused troubles simulated means a designed...

Powell's(1984) Censored Least Absolute Deviations (CLAD) estimator for the censored linear regression model has been regarded as a desirable alternative to maximum likelihood estimation methods due to its robustness to conditional heteroscedasticity and distributional misspeci ̄cation of the error term. However, the CLAD estimation procedure has failed in certain empirical applications (e.g. Hon...