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Natarajan Jeyaprakash1 \*, Che-Hua Yang1,2 and Durairaj Raj Kumar3

1 Additive Manufacturing Center for Mass Customization Production, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

2 Institute of Manufacturing Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, MAM School of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli, India

\*Address all correspondence to: prakash84gct@gmail.com; prakash@ntut.edu.tw

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*Laser Surface Modification of Materials DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94439*

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