Publications by Nikola Kalentics

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Elias Sebastian Klauser, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Nikola Kalentics, Nicolas Blondiaux, Lisa Salamin

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Bragg edge tomography characterization of additively manufactured 316L steel

Roland Logé, Christian Leinenbach, Nikola Kalentics, Markus Strobl, Efthymios Polatidis

In this work we perform a neutron Bragg edge tomography of stainless steel 316L additive manufacturing samples, one as built via standard laser powder bed fusion, and one using the novel three-dimensional (3D) laser shock peening technique. First, we consi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Laser treatment systems and methods for in-situ laser shock peening (lsp) treatment of parts during production thereof by a selective laser sintering or melting (sls/slm) process, and additive manufacturing systems and methods implementing the same

Roland Logé, Nikola Kalentics

There is described, in accordance with a first aspect of the invention, a laser treatment system and method for, in particular, imparting beneficial residual stresses into a desired part (P) during production thereof by a Selective Laser Sintering or Melti ...

2021

Nondestructive characterization of laser powder bed fusion parts with neutron Bragg edge imaging

Roland Logé, Christian Leinenbach, Nikola Kalentics, Markus Strobl

Laser powder bed fusion is an efficient technique for additive manufacturing of metallic materials. The quality of the material produced depends on the optimization of a large range of build parameters and the complex thermo-mechanical build process is pro ...

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A parametric neutron Bragg edge imaging study of additively manufactured samples treated by laser shock peening

Roland Logé, Christian Leinenbach, Nikola Kalentics, Markus Strobl

Laser powder bed fusion is an additive manufacturing technique extensively used for the production of metallic components. Despite this process has reached a status at which parts are produced with mechanical properties comparable to those from conventiona ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Investigation of the effect of Laser Shock Peening in Additively Manufactured samples through Bragg Edge Neutron Imaging

Roland Logé, Markus Strobl, Nikola Kalentics

Additive manufacturing is a promising and rapidly rising technology in metal processing. However, besides a number of key advantages the constitution of a part through a complex thermo-mechanical process implies also some severe issues with the potential o ...

ELSEVIER2020

3D laser shock peening - A new method for improving fatigue properties of selective laser melted parts

Roland Logé, Christian Leinenbach, Nikola Kalentics, Manuel Ortega Varela De Seijas

Although Selective Laser Melting (SLM) currently revolutionizes the way parts are being manufactured, certain process inherent limitations such as accumulation of residual stresses and increased porosity content can lead to a decrease in fatigue life of pr ...

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3D laser shock peening as a way to improve geometrical accuracy in selective laser melting

Roland Logé, Nikola Kalentics, Andreas Burn, Michael Cloots

One of the major drawbacks of selective laser melting (SLM) is the accumulation of tensile residual stresses (TRS) in the surface and subsurface zones of produced parts which can lead to cracking, delamination, geometrical distortions, and a decrease in fa ...

SPRINGER LONDON LTD2019

Laser shock peening: A promising tool for tailoring metallic microstructures in selective laser melting

Roland Logé, Ke Huang, Nikola Kalentics, Valerio Romano, Manuel Ortega Varela De Seijas, Andreas Burn

Metallic parts made by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) are known for their heterogeneous microstructures in the as-built (AB) state. In this paper, Laser Shock Peening (ISP) was performed on a 316 L stainless steel part fabricated by SLM. The LSP treatment i ...

2019

Healing cracks in selective laser melting by 3D laser shock peening

Roland Logé, Jamasp Jhabvala, Christian Leinenbach, Nikola Kalentics, Navid Sohrabi, Hossein Ghasemi Tabasi, Andreas Burn

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) of Ni-based superalloys such as CM247LC is prone to weld-cracking. This paper investigates how to suppress cracks by repeatedly applying Laser Shock Peening (LSP) during the building phase of SLM. Samples made of CM247LC were ...

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