Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference 2018

In order to foster the market potential of additive manufacturing, an Austrian leader project has been established, which was sponsored by The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)over a period of three years with more than 20 research partners coming from Universities, R&D firms and industry. Mid of 2018, the project called "addmanu" was successfully completed. The project structure covered aspects of design, processing and applications of components made from metals, polymers, ceramics and hybrids. In this presentation, only metallic systems are considered, with special emphasis on new powder materials, hybrids, topolgy optimization and joints between dissimilar materials, fabrication of small channels and surface modifications. Regarding potential application fields, demonstrator examples for mechanical engineering, tools for injection moulding, light weight automotive components, nozzels for aerospace technology and composites with special properties for satellites will be shown.