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Surface enhancement of stainless-steel parts produced by LPBF through finishing treatments

2025· article· en· W4414744786 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMATEC Web of Conferences · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdditive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSurface roughnessBrushIndentation hardnessSurface finishingSurface finishFusion

Abstract

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Additive manufacturing (AM) technology has rapidly gained traction due to advances in AM processes, materials, and design research. Advantages of AM include improved ability to produce complex-shaped parts, operational flexibility, and shorter production times compared to conventional technologies. However, AM processes also suffer from some critical issues, such as low-quality surface and unsatisfactory mechanical performance. This is becoming increasingly important for medical applications where surface finish and roughness are critical. Therefore, various post-processing treatments are employed to enhance the surface quality of 3D-printed components. The present study, AISI 316L components fabricated via laser powder bed fusion were wire brush hammered with different numbers of passes: 5, 7, 10, and 15 passes. The surface quality was then examined by measuring roughness and microhardness. The results highlight the positive impact of this post-treatment on the surface quality. The surface roughness was significantly improved, decreasing by about 50%, from a starting roughness of 14 μm, attaining 6.5 μm after treatment. In addition, the microhardness increased significantly by about 102% from 202 Hv to 408 Hv. After 10 passes of wire brush hammering, the results stabilized, which means that the material reached a saturation point.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.571

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it