Everything about Space Launch System

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Space Launch SystemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: An investigation on mechanical properties of PA12 parts produced by a SLS 3D printer: An experimental approachInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Additive ManufacturingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A review on selective laser sintering/melting (SLS/SLM) of aluminium alloy powders: Processing, microstructure, and propertiesCited 1,697 times
5. Go sideways: Exploration Upper StageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Artemis IA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A review on selective laser sintering/melting (SLS/SLM) of aluminium alloy powders: Processing, microstructure, and properties

  E.O. Olakanmi, R.F. Cochrane, K.W. Dalgarno · 2015 · Progress in Materials Science · 1,697 citations

• Mycophenolate mofetil versus oral cyclophosphamide in scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease (SLS II): a randomised controlled, double-blind, parallel group trial

  Donald P Tashkin, Michael D Roth, Philip J Clements · 2016 · The Lancet Respiratory Medicine · 988 citations

• Semiparametric least squares (SLS) and weighted SLS estimation of single-index models

  Hidehiko Ichimura · 1993 · Journal of Econometrics · 805 citations

• 3D/4D Printing of Polymers: Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and Stereolithography (SLA)

  Abishek Kafle, Eric Luis, Raman Silwal · 2021 · Polymers · 588 citations

• Selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printing of medicines

  Fabrizio Fina, Alvaro Goyanes, Simon Gaisford · 2017 · International Journal of Pharmaceutics · 561 citations

• Dependence of mechanical properties of polyamide components on build parameters in the SLS process

  B. Caulfield, P.E. McHugh, S. Lohfeld · 2007 · Journal of Materials Processing Technology · 540 citations

• Selective laser sintering/melting (SLS/SLM) of pure Al, Al–Mg, and Al–Si powders: Effect of processing conditions and powder properties

  E.O. Olakanmi · 2013 · Journal of Materials Processing Technology · 397 citations

• Effects of processing on microstructure and properties of SLS Nylon 12

  H. Zarringhalam, N. Hopkinson, N.F. Kamperman · 2006 · Materials Science and Engineering: A · 281 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• An investigation on mechanical properties of PA12 parts produced by a SLS 3D printer: An experimental approach

  Milad Khademe Razaviye, Roohollah Azizi Tafti, Mehran Khajehmohammadi · 2022 · CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology · 84 citations

• Towards sustainable society: the sustainable livelihood security (SLS) approach for prioritizing development and understanding sustainability: an insight from West Bengal, India

  Subham Roy, Arghadeep Bose, Debanjan Basak · 2023 · Environment, Development and Sustainability · 83 citations

• Prediction of Solid-State Form of SLS 3D Printed Medicines Using NIR and Raman Spectroscopy

  Sarah J. Trenfield, Patricija Januskaite, Alvaro Goyanes · 2022 · Pharmaceutics · 64 citations

• On the Effect of Lattice Topology on Mechanical Properties of SLS Additively Manufactured Sheet-, Ligament-, and Strut-Based Polymeric Metamaterials

  Aliaa M. Abou-Ali, Dong-Wook Lee, Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub · 2022 · Polymers · 60 citations

• Comparative performance evaluation of microarchitected lattices processed via SLS, MJ, and DLP 3D printing methods: Experimental investigation and modelling

  Johannes Schneider, S. Kumar · 2023 · Journal of Materials Research and Technology · 57 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Additive ManufacturingRupinder Singh, J. Paulo Davim · 2018
• 📕Witness to historyJoseph Rebhun, Nathan Kravetz · 1996
• Mercedes-Benz 190SL owner's manual, 1955-1963Motorbooks International · 1987
• 📕Mercedes-Benz 190 SL, 1955-63Walter Zeichner · 1989
• Mercedes-Benz 300SLKarl Ludvigsen · 2002
• Das neue grosse Mercedes SL-BuchHelmut Baaden, Matthias Röcke · 2002
• 📕Mercedes-Benz 300 SLW. Robert Nitske · 1974
• 📕Mercedes-Benz SLJohn Heilig · 1997

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