“…There has been extensive research on the processing technique developments in laser cladding and additive manufacturing, including blown powder cladding [3, 32-34], coincident wire and powder feeding [35,36], pre-placed powder cladding [37][38][39], powder feeders and nozzles [40][41][42], the influences of the main cladding parameters (laser power, energy distribution, beam diameter, scanning speed, powder feeding rate, and so on) on the clad geometry, defects (cracks and porosity), microstructure, phases and properties and hybrid laser cladding (laser plus induction, plasma, thermal spray, and so on) [43,44]. Also there have been investigations on the comparison of cladding with different lasers and other methods, cladding process monitoring and control [5,20,[45][46][47], modelling and simulation [11,[48][49][50][51][52][53][54], and practical industrial applications [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. In addition, laser cladding has been extensively investigated for the repairing and manufacture of 3D components [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]…”