Table 1 Statistics and similarity groupings for all four laser-gas strategies and five compressive performance metrics, n = 30 per strategy. Groups with common letter identifiers (e.g., A) were found to be statistically similar (p < 0.05, Tukey)

Stiffness (kN/mm)

    QUAD

17.30

1.73

A

    AAF

16.98

1.61

A

    WAF

15.15

1.96

B

    CTL

13.28

1.33

C

Yield Force (kN)

    QUAD

10.26

0.65

A

    AAF

9.86

0.76

A

    WAF

10.06

0.94

A

    CTL

8.00

0.67

B

Ultimate Force (kN)

    QUAD

12.58

0.83

A

    AAF

12.19

1.00

A

    WAF

12.12

0.97

A

    CTL

10.03

0.86

B

Disp. at Break (mm)

    QUAD

1.66

0.18

A

    AAF

1.65

0.11

A

    WAF

1.71

0.12

A

    CTL

1.73

0.12

A

Energy to Break (J)

    QUAD

14.58

1.40

A

    AAF

14.08

1.22

A

    WAF

12.98

1.27

B

    CTL

10.27

0.85

C