OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virtual and Physical Prototyping is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Laser powder bed fusion for metal additive manufacturing: perspectives on recent developments	194
Recent progress on additive manufacturing of multi-material structures with laser powder bed fusion	112
3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: fabrication, modelling, and control	104
Recent progress and scientific challenges in multi-material additive manufacturing via laser-based powder bed fusion	104
Perspectives of using machine learning in laser powder bed fusion for metal additive manufacturing	98
Laser additive manufacturing of Mg-based composite with improved degradation behaviour	82
A review on the state-of-the-art of surface finishing processes and related ISO/ASTM standards for metal additive manufactured components	80
Deep learning for fabrication and maturation of 3D bioprinted tissues and organs	79
Rapid surface defect identification for additive manufacturing with in-situ point cloud processing and machine learning	79
A review on qualification and certification for metal additive manufacturing	63
Additively manufactured dual-functional metamaterials with customisable mechanical and sound-absorbing properties	48
Additive manufacturing of bimetallic structures	48
3D printed hybrid-dimensional electrodes for flexible micro-supercapacitors with superior electrochemical behaviours	44
A highly stretchable and intrinsically self-healing strain sensor produced by 3D printing	41
Post-processing treatments to enhance additively manufactured polymeric parts: a review	40
Semi-supervised Monitoring of Laser powder bed fusion process based on acoustic emissions	38
Effect of melting modes on microstructure and tribological properties of selective laser melted AlSi10Mg alloy	38
Differentiation of materials and laser powder bed fusion processing regimes from airborne acoustic emission combined with machine learning	38
Effect of defocusing distance on laser powder bed fusion of high strength Al–Cu–Mg–Mn alloy	38
Laser printing path and its influence on molten pool configuration, microstructure and mechanical properties of laser powder bed fusion processed rare earth element modified Al-Mg alloy	36
Contactless reversible 4D-printing for 3D-to-3D shape morphing	36
A numerical study on the packing quality of fibre/polymer composite powder for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing	36
Additive manufacturing of a shift block via laser powder bed fusion: the simultaneous utilisation of optimised topology and a lattice structure	36
Vertical and uniform growth of MoS ₂ nanosheets on GO nanosheets for efficient mechanical reinforcement in polymer scaffold	35
Current trends in additively manufactured (3D printed) energy absorbing structures for crashworthiness application – a review	34

Stiffness and energy absorption of additive manufactured hybrid lattice structures	33
Achieving grain refinement and ultrahigh yield strength in laser aided additive manufacturing of Ti−6Al−4V alloy by trace Ni addition	33
Online Convolutional Neural Network-based anomaly detection and quality control for Fused Filament Fabrication process	32
Influence of erbium addition on the defects of selective laser-melted 7075 aluminium alloy	31
Superior energy absorption of continuously graded microlattices by electron beam additive manufacturing	30
Quasi-static and dynamic mechanical properties of additively manufactured Al₂O₃ ceramic lattice structures: effects of structural configuration	30