M. Carbucicchio et al., IMPROVEMENT OF SURFACE-PROPERTIES OF AISI-304 STAINLESS-STEEL BY LASER MELTING, Hyperfine interactions, 112(1-4), 1998, pp. 19-23
The microstructures and properties of deep laser melted and rapidly so
lidified zones produced by a cw power laser on thick plates of AISI 30
4 stainless steel were studied. Both chemical and mechanical propertie
s of the solidified regions were found to be comparable or better than
those characterizing the original material, thus allowing the melting
process to be used for technological purposes, in particular for weld
ing.