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Review of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) additive manufacturing process Anshul Yadav* Department of ME, IIT Kanpur anshuly@iitk.ac.in Swati Gupta Department. of CSE, AKGEC swatigupta.akgec@ Abstract—Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is special among other AM processes due to the flexibility of materials being processed, and the ability to create functional components having mechanical properties comparable to those properties of bulk materials. The SLM process starts by slicing a 3D CAD model into a number of layers. For each sliced layer a laser scan path is calculated?which defines both boundary contour and some form of fill sequence, often a raster pattern. Each layer is then sequentially recreated by depositing powder layers, one on top of the previous layer, and melting their surface by scanning a laser beam. The powder is spread uniformly using a wiper. A high power-density fiber laser with a 40μm beam spot size melts the pre-deposited powder layer. The melted particles fuse and solidify to form a layer of the component. During the process, successive layers of metal powder are fully melted and consolidated on top of each other by the energy of a high intensity laser beam. Keywords— Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Additive Manufacturing, SLS, Microstructures, Lasers INTRODUCTION: Additive Manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a direct development from the Rapid Prototyping (RP) technologies that has revolutionized 3D model preparation. RP was used to produce replicas or models of parts for evaluation purposes only but AM can produce not only prototypes but fully functional parts in a variety of materials, and hence can be used as a primary manufacturing process. AM technologies build near-net shape components one layer at a time using data from 3D CAD models. AM Technologies can easily produce highly complex structured parts directly from CAD data. A number of sectors such as aerospace, oil and gas and the medical industry are extensively working with additive manufactu