Figure 1: Additive manufacturing of metal alloys via selective laser melting. Pre-alloyed gas-atomized 7075 and 6061 spherical powders with an average particle size of 45 μm were coated with 1 vol% ...
Images of aluminum alloy 7075 taken with a scanning electron microscope before (A), during (B), and after (C) going through the ShAPE machine show how the microstructure of the alloy changes ...