KU Leuven — Department of Materials Engineering (emeritus)
Leuven · BE · publishing in AM since 2010
NiTi shape-memory alloys and AM of functional metals
Jan Van Humbeeck is Professor Emeritus at KU Leuven and one of Europe's most senior figures in functional alloy metallurgy. His decades of work on NiTi shape-memory alloys provided the metallurgical foundation that informed the early SLM/LPBF processing of these materials at KU Leuven. With Kruth, Thijs, Kempen, and Vrancken, he co-authored the foundational SLM papers on Ti-6Al-4V microstructure (Thijs 2010), AlSi10Mg mechanical properties (Kempen 2011/2012), and heat treatment of LPBF Ti-6Al-4V (Vrancken 2014) — between them establishing many of the process–microstructure relationships used in current heat-treatment recipes and process windows. His broader contributions include damping alloys, magnetic shape-memory materials, and the metallurgical training of researchers who now lead AM groups across Europe.
Mechanical properties of AlSi10Mg produced by selective laser melting
Kempen K, Thijs L, Van Humbeeck J et al. · 2011 · Physics Procedia
DOIMechanical properties of AlSi10Mg produced by selective laser melting
Kempen K, Thijs L, Van Humbeeck J et al. · 2012 · Physics Procedia
DOIHeat treatment of Ti6Al4V produced by Selective Laser Melting: Microstructure and mechanical properties
Vrancken B, Thijs L, Kruth JP et al. · 2014 · Journal of Alloys and Compounds
DOIA study of the microstructural evolution during selective laser melting of Ti-6Al-4V
Thijs L, Verhaeghe F, Craeghs T et al. · 2010 · Acta Materialia
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