A tungsten carbide–cobalt (WC–Co) composite layer was formed on a stainless-steel type 304 (SS304) substrate using multibeam laser metal deposition (LMD) with blue diode lasers. This paper aims to provide WC–Co layer formation with low porosity and high layer formation efficiency by using the multibeam LMD process. The effects of process parameters such as laser output power and powder feed rate are tied together to explain the geometry of the melt layer as well as the fraction of the laser energy used for melting a material. The experimental results show that the porosity rate and layer formation efficiency were recorded at 0.3% and 0.0042 mm3/J, respectively, at the laser output power of 180 W and a powder feed rate of 75 mg/s. It was revealed that layer formation efficiency was dependent on the laser output power.
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