Tan Research Group @NUS

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Highly Cited Papers (of 2024):

  • X.P. Tan*, Y.H. Kok, Y.J. Tan, M. Descoins, D. Mangelinck, S.B. Tor, K.F. Leong, C.K. Chua. Graded microstructure and mechanical properties of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V via electron beam melting. Acta Materialia 97 (2015): 1-16. 
  • Z.J. Sun, X.P. Tan*, S.B. Tor, W.Y. Yeong. Selective laser melting of stainless steel 316L with low porosity and high build rates. Materials & Design 104 (2016): 197-204. 
  • X.P. Tan*, Y.J. Tan, C.S.L. Chow, S.B. Tor, W.Y. Yeong. Metallic powder-bed based 3D printing of cellular scaffolds for orthopaedic implants: A state-of-the-art review on manufacturing, topological design, mechanical properties and biocompatibility. Materials Science and Engineering C 76 (2017): 1328-1343. 
  • Z. Sun, X.P. Tan*, S.B. Tor, C.K. Chua. Simultaneously enhanced strength and ductility for 3D-printed stainless steel 316L by selective laser melting. NPG Asia Materials 10 (2018) 127-136. 
  • Y. Kok, X.P. Tan*, P. Wang, M.L.S. Nai, N.H. Loh, E. Liu, S.B. Tor. Anisotropy and heterogeneity of microstructure and mechanical properties in metal additive manufacturing: A critical review. Materials & Design 139 (2018): 565-586. 
  • C. Wang, X.P. Tan*, S.B. Tor, C.S. Lim. Machine learning in additive manufacturing: state-of-the-art and perspectives. Additive Manufacturing 36 (2020) 101538.
  • Z. Sun, X.P. Tan*, C. Wang, M. Desoins, D. Mangelinck, S.B. Tor, E.A. Jagle, S. Zaefferer, D. Raabe. Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia (2021) 116505.

2024

  1. S. Chandra, C. Wang, S.B. Tor, U. Ramamurty, X.P. Tan*. Powder-size driven facile microstructure control in powder-fusion metal additive manufacturing processes. Nature Communications 15 (1) 3094, 2024
  2. P. Kumar, S. Huang, D.H. Cook, K. Chen, U. Ramamurty, X.P. Tan*, R.O. Ritchie*. A strong fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy with nano-bridged honeycomb microstructure intrinsically toughened by 3D-printing. Nature Communications 15 (1), 841, 2024
  3. R. Cui, L. Wang*, Y. Su*, B. Li, L. Yao, B. Wang, L. Luo, R. Chen, J. Guo, X.P. Tan*. Multiscale microstructure containing nanometer-scale precipitations and stacking faults yields a high-strength Al-5Cu alloy by electron beam freeform fabrication. Acta Materialia 266, 119682, 2024
  4. N. Marrani, C. Gao, R.Q. Tan, X.P. Tan*. Homogenization heat treatment and tribological properties of in situ alloyed NiTiCu by laser powder‐bed fusion. Advanced Engineering Materials (2024): 2401335. (Invited)
  5. Y. Guo, H. Su, H. Gao, Z. Shen, P. Yang, Y. Liu, D. Zhao, Z. Zhang, M. Guo, X.P. Tan. Microstructural origins of enhanced work hardening and ductility in laser powder-bed fusion 3D-printed AlCoCrFeNi2. 1 eutectic high-entropy alloys. International Journal of Plasticity 179 (2024): 104050.

2023

  1. C. Wang, S. Chandra, S. Huang, S.B. Tor, X.P. Tan*. Unraveling process-microstructure-property correlations in powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing through information-rich surface features with deep learning. Journal of Materials Processing Technology 311, 117804, 2023
  2. S. Chandra, X.P. Tan*, P. Kumar, U. Ramamurty. Part geometry-driven crystallographic texture control in a 3D-printed austenitic steel–a strategy for near-monocrystalline microstructure generation. Scripta Materialia 226, 115255, 2023
  3. C. Jia, F. Chen*, X.P. Tan, Y. He, Y. Wu, Q. Shen. Understanding high-temperature corrosion behavior of an AlN/Mo functionally graded material exposed to Li/LiF-LiCl-LiBr vapor. Corrosion Science 220, 111297, 2023

2022

  1. R. Tosi, C.L.A. Leung*, X.P. Tan*, E. Muzangaza, M.M. Attallah. Revealing the microstructural evolution of electron beam powder bed fusion and hot isostatic pressing Ti-6Al-4V in-situ shelling samples using X-ray computed tomography. Additive Manufacturing 57, 102962, 2022
  2. R. Tosi, E. Muzangaza, X.P. Tan*, D. Wimpenny, M.M. Attallah. Hybrid electron beam powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V: processing, microstructure, and mechanical properties. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 1-15, 2022.
  3. P. Wang*, X.P. Tan, M.L.S. Nai, J. Wu, J. Wei. Deformation induced nanoscale twinning improves strength and ductility in additively manufactured titanium alloys. Materials Science and Engineering A, 142568, 2022.
  4. S. Tekumalla, R. Tosi, X.P. Tan, M. Seita. Directed energy deposition and characterization of high-speed steels with high vanadium content. Additive Manufacturing Letters, 100029, 2022.
  5. G. Zhou, Y. Zhang, W. Pantleon, J. Kou, U. Ramamurty, X.P. Tan, S. Luo, W. He, C.-S. Ku, C.-Y. Chiang, N. Tamura, K. Chen*. Quantification of room temperature strengthening of laser shock peened Ni-based superalloy using synchrotron microdiffraction. Materials & Design 221, 110948, 2022

Prior to NUS

  1. Z. Sun, X.P. Tan*, C. Wang, M. Desoins, D. Mangelinck, S.B. Tor, E.A. Jagle, S. Zaefferer, D. Raabe. Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia (2021) 116505.
  2. S. Chandra, X.P. Tan*, R.L. Narayan, C. Wang, S.B. Tor, G. Seet. A generalised hot cracking criterion for nickel-based single crystal superalloys additively manufactured by electron beam melting. Additive Manufacturing (2020) 101633.
  3. C. Wang, X.P. Tan*, S.B. Tor, C.S. Lim. Machine learning in additive manufacturing: state-of-the-art and perspectives. Additive Manufacturing 36 (2020) 101538.
  4. X.P. Tan*, Y.H. Kok, W.Q. Toh, Y.J. Tan, M. Descoins, D. Mangelinck, S.B. Tor, K.F. Leong, C.K. Chua. Revealing martensitic transformation and α/β interface evolution in electron beam melting 3D-printed Ti-6Al-4V. Scientific Reports 6 (2016): 26039. 
  5. X.P. Tan*, Y.H. Kok, Y.J. Tan, M. Descoins, D. Mangelinck, S.B. Tor, K.F. Leong, C.K. Chua. Graded microstructure and mechanical properties of additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V via electron beam melting. Acta Materialia 97 (2015): 1-16.