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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent progress on additive manufacturing of multi-material structures with laser powder bed fusion	166
Recent progress and scientific challenges in multi-material additive manufacturing via laser-based powder bed fusion	149
Perspectives of using machine learning in laser powder bed fusion for metal additive manufacturing	116
A review on qualification and certification for metal additive manufacturing	79
Additive manufacturing of bimetallic structures	77
Additively manufactured dual-functional metamaterials with customisable mechanical and sound-absorbing properties	63
Post-processing treatments to enhance additively manufactured polymeric parts: a review	53
Current trends in additively manufactured (3D printed) energy absorbing structures for crashworthiness application – a review	51
3D printed hybrid-dimensional electrodes for flexible micro-supercapacitors with superior electrochemical behaviours	50
Achieving grain refinement and ultrahigh yield strength in laser aided additive manufacturing of Ti−6Al−4V alloy by trace Ni addition	50
Topology optimization for metal additive manufacturing: current trends, challenges, and future outlook	50
Differentiation of materials and laser powder bed fusion processing regimes from airborne acoustic emission combined with machine learning	48
Strengthening and fracture mechanisms of a precipitation hardening high-entropy alloy fabricated by selective laser melting	47
Semi-supervised Monitoring of Laser powder bed fusion process based on acoustic emissions	47
Additively manufacturing-enabled hierarchical NiTi-based shape memory alloys with high strength and toughness	46
Experimental and numerical investigation of the origin of surface roughness in laser powder bed fused overhang regions	46
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	46
Stiffness and energy absorption of additive manufactured hybrid lattice structures	45
Online Convolutional Neural Network-based anomaly detection and quality control for Fused Filament Fabrication process	45
A novel tubular structure with negative Poisson's ratio based on gyroid-type triply periodic minimal surfaces	43
Vertical and uniform growth of MoS ₂ nanosheets on GO nanosheets for efficient mechanical reinforcement in polymer scaffold	43
A numerical study on the packing quality of fibre/polymer composite powder for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing	40
Architected lightweight, sound-absorbing, and mechanically efficient microlattice metamaterials by digital light processing 3D printing	38
Influence of erbium addition on the defects of selective laser-melted 7075 aluminium alloy	37
Quasi-static and dynamic mechanical properties of additively manufactured Al₂O₃ ceramic lattice structures: effects of structural configuration	35

Ordered nitrogen complexes overcoming strength–ductility trade-off in an additively manufactured high-entropy alloy	34
Effect of volumetric energy density on microstructure and tribological properties of FeCoNiCuAl high-entropy alloy produced by laser powder bed fusion	33
3D printed porous biomass–derived SiCnw/SiC composite for structure–function integrated electromagnetic absorption	32
Superior energy absorption of continuously graded microlattices by electron beam additive manufacturing	31
A data-driven machine learning approach for the 3D printing process optimisation	30