Sam Buls

880 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 704 citations indexed

About

Sam Buls is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Buls has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 704 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 4 papers in Automotive Engineering and 2 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sam Buls's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (6 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (4 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (3 papers). Sam Buls is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (6 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (4 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (3 papers). Sam Buls collaborates with scholars based in Belgium. Sam Buls's co-authors include Karolien Kempen, Stijn Clijsters, Tom Craeghs, J.-P. Kruth, Bey Vrancken, Jean‐Pierre Kruth, Lore Thijs, Jan Van Humbeeck, J. Van Humbeeck and Jan Schrooten and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and Lirias (KU Leuven).

In The Last Decade

Sam Buls

8 papers receiving 676 citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

In situ quality control of the selective laser melting process using a high-speed, real-time melt pool monitoring system

2014 360 citations Stijn Clijsters, Tom Craeghs et al. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Buls Belgium	5	669	434	142	82	42	8	704
Michael Gouge United States	11	735 1.1×	535 1.2×	150 1.1×	91 1.1×	39 0.9×	12	798
Luis E. Criales United States	9	646 1.0×	466 1.1×	112 0.8×	88 1.1×	72 1.7×	10	679
Ziyad Smoqi United States	12	586 0.9×	334 0.8×	144 1.0×	40 0.5×	49 1.2×	15	646
Subin Shrestha United States	12	985 1.5×	697 1.6×	120 0.8×	138 1.7×	76 1.8×	20	1.0k
Daniel E. Sievers United States	12	515 0.8×	347 0.8×	62 0.4×	51 0.6×	68 1.6×	18	559
Michael Karg Germany	10	460 0.7×	385 0.9×	84 0.6×	73 0.9×	42 1.0×	18	522
Rishi Ganeriwala United States	14	724 1.1×	446 1.0×	111 0.8×	84 1.0×	127 3.0×	18	774
Gunther Mohr Germany	15	739 1.1×	477 1.1×	107 0.8×	64 0.8×	77 1.8×	28	807
Andrei Diatlov Germany	5	413 0.6×	267 0.6×	61 0.4×	82 1.0×	38 0.9×	7	468
Ivan Zhirnov Russia	12	422 0.6×	245 0.6×	83 0.6×	108 1.3×	35 0.8×	27	457

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Buls

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sam Buls. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sam Buls based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sam Buls. Sam Buls is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Vrancken, Bey, Sam Buls, Jean‐Pierre Kruth, & Jan Van Humbeeck. (2015). Influence of preheating and oxygen content on Selective Laser Melting of Ti6Al4V. Lirias (KU Leuven). 16 indexed citations

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Speirs, Mathew, Jean‐Pierre Kruth, Jan Van Humbeeck, et al.. (2014). The effect of SLM parameters on geometrical characteristic of open porous NiTi scaffolds. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations

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Buls, Sam, Stijn Clijsters, & Jean‐Pierre Kruth. (2014). Homogenizing the Melt Pool Intensity Distribution in the SLM Process through System Identification and Feedback Control. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 6–11. 2 indexed citations

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Clijsters, Stijn, Tom Craeghs, Sam Buls, Karolien Kempen, & J.-P. Kruth. (2014). In situ quality control of the selective laser melting process using a high-speed, real-time melt pool monitoring system. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 75(5-8). 1089–1101. 360 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kempen, Karolien, Bey Vrancken, Sam Buls, et al.. (2014). Selective Laser Melting of Crack-Free High Density M2 High Speed Steel Parts by Baseplate Preheating. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering. 136(6). 249 indexed citations

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Buls, Sam, Tom Craeghs, Stijn Clijsters, & Karolien Kempen. (2013). The Influence of a Dynamically Optimized Galvano Based Laser Scanner on the Total Scan Time of SLM Parts. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 4 indexed citations

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Kempen, Karolien, Lore Thijs, Bey Vrancken, et al.. (2013). Producing Crack-Free, High Density M2 HSS Parts by Selective Laser Melting: Pre-Heating the Baseplate. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 43 indexed citations

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Kempen, Karolien, Bey Vrancken, Lore Thijs, et al.. (2013). Lowering thermal gradients in Selective Laser melting by pre-heating the baseplate. Lirias (KU Leuven). 29 indexed citations

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