“…Energy density is widely used as a metric when designing processing parameters for additive manufacturing or expressing properties of additively manufactured materials, which can be defined as laser power, P, over the product of laser scan speed, v, and the hatch space, h, and layer thickness t, i.e., ED = P/(vht), with unit of J/m 3 [40]. The same group of authors proved in another numerical study that increasing the scanning speed leads to a smaller melt pool, while increasing laser power induces the bigger melt pool [26]. Thus, by increasing the energy density, the size of the melt pool expands where this process commonly leads to parts with enhanced material properties.…”