Cellular Scanning Strategy for Selective Laser Melting: Capturing Thermal Trends with a Low-Fidelity, Pseudo-Analytical Model

Table 4

Comparison criteria for optimized scanning strategies and control test cases.

Features	Optimized scanning strategies			Control scanning strategy
	Thermal homogeneity	Total consolidated area	𝜃	Case I	Case II
Molten elements (%)	55.60	56.21	59.93	48.37	47.06
Overheated elements (%)	33.29	34.79	27.89	35.79	36.82
Maximum temperature (°C)	3200	3200	3200	3200	3200
Maximum st. dev. of temperature (°C)	379.27	384.39	382.96	390.76	509.11
Simulation time	917 s	916 s	917 s	916 s	917 s
𝜃	5.0527	5.1535	3.8894	6.0605	4.9191