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Morphology identification of dendrites of laser cladding layer based on deep learning

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... Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology, as an essential category of multiple additive manufacturing technologies, is able to produce polymeric composite materials economically and with obvious flexibility [1,2]. This technique is widely used in aerospace [3,4], automotive manufacturing [5,6], optical components [7][8][9], and other industrial fields. The technique of LPBF uses a high-energy intensity laser beam to selectively melt the powder, which can fabricate more complex and superior structures due to its smaller laser spot and thinner layer thickness [10][11][12]. ...
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