“…Over the last twenty years, starting with [44], different approaches for simulations using the Finite Element (FE) method have been available in literature regarding the modelling of the SLM process on a small scale: purely thermal models, see for example [12,15,26,29,30,38,42,45] and more sophisticated thermomechanical small strain models, i.e. [11,16,22,36,37,43,49,51]. Thermomechanical models enable the prediction of residual stresses and the geometry, as well as the influence on scanning strategies.…”