Tom Craeghs

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Tom Craeghs is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Craeghs has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 22 papers in Automotive Engineering and 19 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tom Craeghs's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (26 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (16 papers). Tom Craeghs is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (26 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (22 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (16 papers). Tom Craeghs collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Italy and Czechia. Tom Craeghs's co-authors include Jean‐Pierre Kruth, Frederik Verhaeghe, Lore Thijs, Jan Van Humbeeck, Florian Bechmann, Stijn Clijsters, Evren Yasa, Sam Buls, Karolien Kempen and J.-P. Kruth and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, Journal of Biomechanics and CIRP Annals.

In The Last Decade

Tom Craeghs

36 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A study of the microstructural evolution during selective laser melting of Ti–6Al–4V

2010 2.4k citations Lore Thijs, Frederik Verhaeghe et al. Acta Materialia profile →
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. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tom Craeghs	4.3k	3.0k	835	812	449	36	4.6k
Peter Mercelis	4.1k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	467 0.6×	740 0.9×	534 1.2×	21	4.8k
Masanori Shiomi	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	350 0.4×	377 0.5×	226 0.5×	32	2.5k
Aref Yadollahi	4.1k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	623 0.7×	451 0.6×	175 0.4×	33	4.4k
J.S. Zuback	7.2k 1.7×	4.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	589 0.7×	358 0.8×	18	7.6k
Chunlei Qiu	3.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	195 0.2×	235 0.5×	36	3.9k
Dominic Cuiuri	6.3k 1.5×	3.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	751 0.9×	182 0.4×	68	6.8k
Shawn P. Moylan	1.9k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	232 0.3×	518 0.6×	277 0.6×	52	2.1k
J. Milewski	7.2k 1.7×	4.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	493 0.6×	437 1.0×	40	7.7k
Karolien Kempen	4.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	356 0.4×	441 0.5×	118 0.3×	19	4.3k
Andrew J. Pinkerton	3.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	463 0.6×	279 0.3×	231 0.5×	102	3.8k

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Dinh, Tien Dung, et al.. (2020). A unified approach to model the effect of porosity and high surface roughness on the fatigue properties of additively manufactured Ti6-Al4-V alloys. Additive manufacturing. 33. 101139–101139. 38 indexed citations

Lombaert, Geert, et al.. (2020). Topology optimization of support structure layout in metal-based additive manufacturing accounting for thermal deformations. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 61(6). 2291–2303. 33 indexed citations

Vervaeke, Michael, et al.. (2020). Design and prototyping of beam shapers to generate circular or square top-hat beams of different size for additive manufacturing applications. 24–24. 3 indexed citations

Dinh, Tien Dung, Vahid Yaghoubi, Hao Xiang, et al.. (2020). Modeling detrimental effects of high surface roughness on the fatigue behavior of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloys. International Journal of Fatigue. 144. 106034–106034. 32 indexed citations

Dewulf, Wim, et al.. (2018). Enhanced dimensional measurement by fast determination and compensation of geometrical misalignments of X-ray computed tomography instruments. CIRP Annals. 67(1). 523–526. 17 indexed citations

Ferrucci, Massimiliano, Michal Vopálenský, Ivana Kumpová, et al.. (2018). Measurement of the X-ray computed tomography instrument geometry by minimization of reprojection errors—Implementation on experimental data. Precision Engineering. 54. 107–117. 19 indexed citations

Pavan, Michele, Matthias G.R. Faes, Dieter Strobbe, et al.. (2017). On the influence of inter-layer time and energy density on selected critical-to-quality properties of PA12 parts produced via laser sintering. Polymer Testing. 61. 386–395. 73 indexed citations

Pavan, Michele, Tom Craeghs, Jean‐Pierre Kruth, & Wim Dewulf. (2016). Understanding the Laser Sintering of Polymers at Microscale Level by Using X-Ray Computed Tomography. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations

Craeghs, Tom, et al.. (2012). Detection of Process Failures in Layerwise Laser Melting with Optical Process Monitoring. Physics Procedia. 39. 753–759. 184 indexed citations

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Clijsters, Stijn, Tom Craeghs, Maarten Moesen, & Jean‐Pierre Kruth. (2012). Optimization of thin wall structures in SLM. Lirias (KU Leuven). 7 indexed citations

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Craeghs, Tom, et al.. (2011). Determination of geometrical factors in Layerwise Laser Melting using optical process monitoring. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 49(12). 1440–1446. 152 indexed citations

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Moesen, Maarten, Tom Craeghs, Jean‐Pierre Kruth, & Jan Schrooten. (2011). Robust beam compensation for laser-based additive manufacturing. Computer-Aided Design. 43(8). 876–888. 16 indexed citations

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Craeghs, Tom, Stijn Clijsters, Evren Yasa, & Jean‐Pierre Kruth. (2011). Online Quality Control of Selective Laser Melting. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 117 indexed citations

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Thijs, Lore, Frederik Verhaeghe, Tom Craeghs, Jan Van Humbeeck, & Jean‐Pierre Kruth. (2010). A study of the microstructural evolution during selective laser melting of Ti–6Al–4V. Acta Materialia. 58(9). 3303–3312. 2360 indexed citations breakdown →

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Craeghs, Tom, et al.. (2010). Feedback control of Layerwise Laser Melting using optical sensors. Physics Procedia. 5. 505–514. 230 indexed citations

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Bechmann, Florian, et al.. (2010). Quality control of laser- and powder bed-based Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. Physics Procedia. 5. 617–622. 248 indexed citations

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Yasa, Evren, et al.. (2009). Rapid Manufacturing Research at the Catholic University of Leuven. Lirias (KU Leuven). 13 indexed citations

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Verhaeghe, Frederik, Tom Craeghs, Jeroen Heulens, & Lieven Pandelaers. (2009). A pragmatic model for selective laser melting with evaporation. Acta Materialia. 57(20). 6006–6012. 259 indexed citations

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Craeghs, Tom & Jean‐Pierre Kruth. (2009). Online monitoring and quality control of Selective Laser Melting using optical sensors. 131–140. 3 indexed citations

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Kruth, Jean‐Pierre, Gideon Levy, Ralf Schindel, Tom Craeghs, & Evren Yasa. (2008). Consolidation of polymer powders by selective laser sintering. Lirias (KU Leuven). 15–30. 57 indexed citations

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