Super alloys Nickel and titanium based alloys Fundamentals of additive manufacturing Fabrication of titanium based alloys using selective laser melting process Fabrication of nickel based alloys using selective laser melting process Additive manufacturing and its tribological/surface morphological phenomena Aim, scope and organization of this work Tribological and surface morphological aspects of additively manufactured titanium allo ys Tribological behavior and surface integrity variable description Process parameters and scanning based variations Processes to improve the tribology and surface morphology of additively manufactured titanium alloys Surface modifications of additively manufactured titanium alloys Tribological and surface morphological aspects of additively manufactured nickel alloys. Influence of process parameters on tribological aspects of additively manufactured nickel alloys Surface defects of additively manufactured nickel alloys Surface morphology of additively manufactured nickel parts Post-processing of additively manufactured nickel parts Machining induced tribological and surface morphological characteristics of additively manufactured parts Tribological and surface morphological characteristics in machining of additively manufactured components Chapter 5: Role of MQL in improving the machining and tribological characteristics of additively manufactured Inconel alloy: A case study. Case study: Machining of additively manufacturing Inconel alloy Results and discussions Conclusions and futurę scope. Concluding remarks and futurę scope for additively manufactured titanium alloys Concluding remarks and futurę scope for additively manufactured nickel alloys Concluding remarks and futurę scope for improvements of machining and tribology characteristics of additively manufactured superalloys