Research Programme envisaged Date- 28/02/2024

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an emerging technology used to fabricate complex and near
net shape components with minimum tooling and material wastage. This technology has
found its application in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and structural elements. Multi
material additive manufacturing (MMAM) process is able to manufacture components built
with a combination of different materials like metals, ceramics, and reinforced materials to
achieve the desired properties at a specific location. Many multi-material combinations have
been fabricated through MMAM such as Al-Fe, Al-Cu, SS-Ni, Ni-Ti, Ti-SS, diamond-W-Cu
etc. The most common combination among these discussed materials are SS-Ni multi-
material for its wide range of applications in gas turbine parts, energy industry, petrochemical
industry, marine industry, nuclear fission reactors, aerospace structure and aerospace engines.
The processing of SS-Ni multi-material using LPBF, DED and WAAM has been found to
provide superior properties such as high strength at extreme temperature environment,
corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance, higher toughness at low cost when compared with
conventional manufacturing methods thereby, motivating the present review on SS-Ni multi-
material AM. This review aims to summarize the various methods used for the fabrication of
SS-Ni multi-material AM, different combination strategies and its effect on the quality of
fabrication, their microstructure variations, property enhancement, challenges and
applications.

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