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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: Integr Mater Manuf Innov. 2020 Feb 20;9(1):31–53. doi: 10.1007/s40192-020-00170-8

Table 2.

Summary of the cooling rate measurements presented in the histograms in Fig. 14

Feature Layer Odd-numbered layers
Even-numbered layers
n Mean (°C/s) Median (°C/s) SD (°C/s) n Mean (°C/s) Median (°C/s) SD (°C/s)

Bridge 476 and 477 30,329 4.79E+5 4.70E+5 1.81E+5 36,305 1.62E+5 1.62E+5 8.66E+4
L7 (large) (5 × 5) mm 3 and 4 12,919 5.78E+5 5.71E+5 1.76E+5 14,699 2.21E+5 2.22E+5 1.01E+5
125 and 126 13,044 4.83E+5 4.72E+5 1.72E+5 15,002 1.67E+5 1.67E+5 8.90E+4
345 and 346 12,270 4.88E+5 4.78E+5 1.74E+5 14,950 1.62E+5 1.62E+5 8.98E+4
L9 (medium) (2.5 × 5) mm 3 and 4 6407 5.80E+5 5.71E+5 1.91E+5 7491 2.69E+5 2.57E+5 1.31E+5
125 and 126 6404 4.98E+5 4.88E+5 1.90E+5 7598 1.80E+5 1.72E+5 1.16E+5
345 and 346 11,358 4.69E+5 4.62E+5 1.93E+5 14,213 1.25E+5 1.27E+5 9.07E+4
L8 (small) (0.5 × 5) mm 3 and 4 1031 7.10E+5 6.99E+5 1.82E+5 1305 3.85E+5 3.61E+5 1.40E+5
125 and 126 1100 6.40E+5 6.37E+5 1.90E+5 1378 2.23E+5 1.84E+5 1.57E+5
345 and 346 5802 4.58E+5 4.39E+5 1.88E+5 7529 1.16E+5 1.15E+5 8.09E+4

The reported standard deviation is the root sum square of the average measurement uncertainty, uT˙, the standard deviation of cooling rates measured in all pixels in each feature. Note that the large standard deviations are primarily a result of the measured variability within each feature