I am a student completing my Bachelors of Engineering (Honours) - Mechanical. My final year research was investigating stainless steel products creaded using additive manufacture through experimental and numerical analysis.
Using the universities MarkForged Metal X printer, an experiment to investigate the tensile strength of 17-4PH SS via additive manufacture was carried out. Parts were manufactured in 3 orientations being, flat, horizontal, and vertical. The parts were then measured, tested, and analysed. Print orientation heavily affected both the print quality and the part tensile strength.