Three dimensional finite element modeling of laser solid freeform fabrication of cobalt alloy stellite 21 with 1.5% nano on the low carbon steel 1015

Our purpose is to model the multilayer laser solid freeform fabrication (LSFF) process for the material properties of low carbon steel 1015 for workpiece and cobalt alloy stellite 21 with 1.5 wt.% nano CeO2 as the powder particles. In this paper, transient heat transfer and mass transfer equations in laser solid freeform fabrication process are solved by Finite Element Method (FEM). In this approach, the geometry of the deposited material, temperature and thermal stress fields across the process area are predicted. For each layer the clad height is computed and computations are done by the use of MATLAB and COMSOL software.