journal article·2026-01

Assessment of the Tribological Behavior of WAAM-Fabricated SS316L through Advanced Ensemble Machine Learning Predictions and RSM-Based Optimization

S. Saravanan, Saravanakumar Sengottaiyan, Ra. Aravind, S. Krishnakumar

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