Welcome to P2[AM]2 Lab

The Laboratory for Powder Processing and Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (P2[AM]2) directed by Prof. Mathieu Brochu is located in the Mining and Materials Engineering Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Our team is conducting both fundamental modelling and processing-related research, as well as industrially-driven programs aiming to increase the utilization and service performance of real-scale components fabricated from powder materials.

Selected recent publications

Tejas Ramakrishnan et al.

International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials

“A method was developed to suppress the crack formation during laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of molybdenum (Mo). The method uses a nitrogen (N2) atmosphere to fabricate crack-free samples without any additional processing. Read more..

Tejas Ramakrishnan et al.International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials

Rong Gu et al.

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

“The influence of cyclic potentiodynamic passivation (CPP) of 316L stainless steels (SS) of different crystallographic orientation produced by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) on the resulting general and pitting corrosion resistance is discussed. Read more..

Rong Gu et al.Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Tejas Ramakrishnan et al.

Advanced Engineering Materials

“This study reports the fabrication and characterization of molybdenum (Mo) metal and titanium-zirconium-molybdenum (TZM) alloy exoskeletons with honeycomb cavity structures (HCS) that are infiltrated with oxygen-free high conductivity (OFHC) Cu under an inert atmosphere... Read more..

Tejas Ramakrishnan et al.Advanced Engineering Materials