Abstract

Roughly speaking, granular media exhibit three basic scales: the specimen scale, the contact scale, and an intermediate scale made up of a set of adjoining particles. In this lecture, we will discuss this latter scale, in a two dimensional context. More specifically, the granular [...]

Abstract

The Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process is the subject of numerous researches for a few decades. Manufactured parts experience very high heating and cooling rates along the laser beam path and suffer an extensive range of temperatures. These high heating and cooling rates can lead [...]