financially supported by the Ford Motor Com-pany under Ford-KU Leuven University Research Alliance Frame-work KUL-0025 fortheproject‘Incremental Additive Manufacturing for Metal Applications’.Haiyang Fan also appreciates the financial support of the China Scholarship Council(CSC)(No.201606050132).
To balance the manufacturing cost and customizability of automotive parts,a hybrid manufacturing process combining die-casting and selective laser melting(SLM)is proposed:starting with a conventional cast substrate,SL...