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Nader Asnafi (Örebro University)25/11/2019, 13:00Design and production of tools, dies and moulds are two important steps in the development of new components/products. These steps determine both the lead time (Time-To-Production/-Market) and the size of the investments required to start the production. This paper deals with design and production of stamping tools & dies for sheet metal components and injection moulds for plastic components....Go to contribution page
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Peter Pirklbauer (Innovation Manager at Airbus Operations GmbH)25/11/2019, 13:30The world of additive manufacturing has reached - literally - outer space, within this keynote, an overview of advanced applications as well as developments from around the globe will be presented.Go to contribution page
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Andreas Graichen (Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery)25/11/2019, 14:00Siemens in Finspong has worked with additive manufacturing since 2009. During the following 10 years, the organization has gone through a whole hype cycle, also the disappointing parts. In 2015/16, decisions were made to cope with the perceived challenges by an increased use of digitalization tools. A bold mission statement was issued and strategies for its implementation devised, called “The...Go to contribution page
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Edmar Allitsch (EOS Holding AG)25/11/2019, 14:30LPBF ( laser based power bed fusion ) has seen tremendous growth over the past years, powered by the transition from prototyping without design limits to industrial production of high performance parts and the current trend to digital manufacturing. Jetting technologies are joining the growing market of additive manufacturing with the target of higher productivity and MIM-like part...Go to contribution page
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Tobias Schröer (FIR at RWTH Aachen)25/11/2019, 15:30In this paper, we propose an integrated cost-benefit model to evaluate the economic utility of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for specific business cases. The high flexibility of AM enables novel product design possibilities and new production systems paradigms. The resulting creation of additional benefits for customers and companies is a subject undergoing intense study. In recent years, the...Go to contribution page
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Franz Haas (Head of Institute, IFT - Graz University of Technology)25/11/2019, 15:30The proposal deals with a completely new technique and energy source for melting of metal powder. The paper is focused on the machine itself, its topology optimized design and the energy transfer to the material. The printer consists of lightweight material und uses a cooling system for the projection part that reuses the removed energy to preheat the platform and the already printed part....Go to contribution page
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Sebastian Dirks (Chair for Digital Additive Production (DAP) of RWTH Aachen University)25/11/2019, 15:50Methods for cost calculation of Laser-based Additive Manufacturing (LAM) have evolved over the last two decades. Starting from a rapid prototyping manufacturing method, cost calculation over time included more than single part production for small series or mixed batches. New machine developments nowadays include large scale production and introduce modular machine designs that give LAM...Go to contribution page
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Andreas Markström (Thermo-Calc Software AB)25/11/2019, 15:50Finite element modelling of Additive processes requires material property data which are not always readily available, especially when using non-standard alloys. CALPHAD tools can calculate properties such as specific heat, density, enthalpy, and mobilities, which can be used as inputs to other codes. These properties are expressed as functions of composition and temperature, which is useful...Go to contribution page
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Jonas Zielinski (Digital Additive Production – RWTH Aachen)25/11/2019, 16:10An aerospace gimbal made of Ti64 is topologically optimized to achieve the same performance with a substantial weight reduction. The Ti64 powder is characterized and numerically studied to ensure spreadability and recyclability. Process parameters are optimized both experimentally and numerically to achieve material density of 99.5%. The distortion of the original geometry was studied...Go to contribution page
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Ulf Ackelid (Freemelt AB)25/11/2019, 16:10Additive manufacturing provides opportunities for improving properties of existing alloys and developing new material compositions. Materials produced with powder bed fusion (PBF) often exhibit unique microstructures, due to the small melt pool and rapid solidification associated with PBF. Unfortunately, most commercial PBF systems are intended for production only. They are too big for...Go to contribution page
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Tom Scharlaken (VIVES University College)25/11/2019, 16:30Practical research on the implementation of metal additive manufacturing in extrusion tooling applications has been deducted by VIVES University College and the ProPolis research group from KULeuven in Belgium. In polymer extrusion lines, molten plastic is forced through a die to define the rough shape of plastic profiles. Calibration units are positioned right behind the mould; their function...Go to contribution page
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Elin Olsson (Erasteel Kloster AB)25/11/2019, 16:30The rapidly growing implementation of AM technologies has led to a growing range of new applications. With new applications comes the demand for new alloys and properties. The final properties of AM materials are influenced by many different powder related properties, such as particle size distribution, chemical composition and flowability. Different machines use different manufacturing...Go to contribution page
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Omid Zarei (Digital Additive Production (DAP), RWTH Aachen University)25/11/2019, 16:50Abstract Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) is a manufacturing technology based on layer-by-layer material additions of fused metal powder. One important characteristic of this technology is its capability to produce components with highly complex geometries. The L-PBF process requires support structures that connect the components to a substrate plate in the machine. These support structures...Go to contribution page
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Jasmin Saewe (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT)25/11/2019, 16:50Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing process employed in many industries, for example for aerospace, automotive and medical applications. In these sectors, nickel-, aluminum- and titanium-based alloys are mainly used. In contrast, the mechanical engineering industry is interested in tool steels for many of their applications. Current research is often limited to hot work...Go to contribution page
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Jonas Zielinski (Digital Additive Production RWTH Aachen University)25/11/2019, 17:10An important goal for the additive manufacturing community is to predict the material-dependent effective mechanical properties of a build-up specimen. In this work, we use three coupled simulations to calculate the mechanical properties of L-PBF processed IN718. In the future this approach could be used for newly designed materials to estimate the expected mechanical properties and the...Go to contribution page
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Martin Dopler (hightech metal Prozessentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH)25/11/2019, 17:10For many contemporary powdermetallurgical applications, spherical powders are preferred. Spherical particles have a lower oxygen content, a better flowability and their behaviour is – compared to irregular particles – better predictable. The powder production process via melt atomization can be divided into the following steps: a. primary breakup into ligaments b. ligament...Go to contribution page
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Tobias Ronneberg (Imperial College London)25/11/2019, 17:30Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationThe current understanding of laser powder bed fusion process-microstructure-property relationships is inadequate to optimise the process. Microstructure-property relations in 316L stainless steel are explored in this study using heat treatment as an investigative tool. As-built material was heat treated to gradually remove microstructural features for evaluation of their influence on yield and...Go to contribution page
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Ms Marie-Noemi Bold (RWTH Aachen University)25/11/2019, 17:30In this contribution, a method for screening and developing new materials by using L-PBF will be introduced. Up to now, the process of designing and developing new alloys is tedious and expensive. That can be significantly accelerated by the Rapid Alloy Development (RAD) approach. This approach describes a new and faster way of creating tailored alloys. New alloys can be fabricated and...Go to contribution page
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Niall O'Dowd (University of California San Diego)25/11/2019, 17:50Metal parts created by additive manufacturing are often difficult to dimensionally characterize due to the complex surface structures created by welding phenomena present in state-of the art printing machines. The most holistic techniques involve measuring the surface of each sintered layer of powder, however, this is complicated to perform in a non-contact, non-destructive, and in-situ...Go to contribution page
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James Shipley (Quintus Technologies AB)25/11/2019, 17:50Duplex materials are commonly used on wrought form due to their high strength and excellent corrosion resistance. Attempts have been made to additively manufacture these over a number of years, often producing very ferritic microstructures. Penn State University have conducted a number of trials as part of a PhD program, using Directed Energy Deposition (DED) with a laser energy source, with...Go to contribution page
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Jurgen Stampfl (Head of Inst. of Materials Science and Technology & Christian Doppler Laboratory Photopolymers in Digital and Restorative Dentistry)26/11/2019, 08:30Additive manufacturing (AM) has developed into a promising technology for various engineering applications and provides advantages over conventional manufacturing methods like casting or milling. Nevertheless, 3D-printable materials are still fighting to meet the demanding requirements of many applications in engineering and biomedicine. The presented work will give an overview about general...Go to contribution page
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Jonas Zielinski (Digital Additive Production RWTH Aachen University)26/11/2019, 09:00Despite the advantages in terms of geometrical freedom or lightweight design, the use of L-PBF is often limited by economic constraints or currently achievable part costs, respectively. With an expected increase of L-PBF machine productivity during the next years, an increase of the share of material costs and the share of non-productive time for powder layer application process is to be...Go to contribution page
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Markus B. Wilms (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology)26/11/2019, 09:00Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationIntermetallic alloys like e.g. Iron-Aluminides, Titanium-Aluminides or Molybdenum-Silizides are prospective materials for high-temperature applications. For additive manufacturing (AM) intermetallic structural materials are particularly challenging due to their high melting points, oxygen susceptibility and low temperature brittleness. The feasibility of manufacturing intermetallics with laser...Go to contribution page
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Lorenzo Marchetti (KTH - Kungliga Tekniska högskolan)26/11/2019, 09:20The flowability of a powder is an important characteristic dependent on both the particle ensemble’s physical properties as well as the testing equipment and conditions. In additive manufacturing processes, flowability can be an indicator of the quality of the deposited powder layer. However, flowability significance is not always clear. In this study, we carried out a comparison between...Go to contribution page
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Xiaoyu Zhao (Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)26/11/2019, 09:20Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAbstract Electron Beam Melting (EBM) is one of the important metal AM processes especially feasible for manufacturing with high-performance or superalloy like Inconel. This research is carried out to evaluate feasibility of manufacturing Inconel 625 by the EBM process. Focusing on process parameters such as speed function for hatching process and the line offset for both contouring and...Go to contribution page
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Valentina Vicario (MIMETE Srl)26/11/2019, 09:40One of the most frequently asked question by users is how long metal powders can be used. MIMETE, the new Italian metal powders producer, defined an internal Design of Experiment to map the effect of atmosphere (from air to 100% argon), temperature and time on different powders, considering both various alloys and granulometric distribution. The properties analyzed after exposure were...Go to contribution page
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Carlo Biffi (CNR)26/11/2019, 09:40Powder bed additive manufacturing offer the possibility of tailoring the beam scanning strategy for improving the homogeneity of the material response, productivity, inner and outer integrity. Moreover, the selection of the scanning strategy is associated to the part size and shape to be realized. Therefore, this work studies the effect of different building strategies on the microstructure...Go to contribution page
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Anika Langebeck (BIAS - Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik GmbH)26/11/2019, 10:30Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationA manifold variety of additive manufacturing techniques has a significant positive impact on many industry sectors from small scaled medical applications to overhaul applications on large-scaled machine components. Large components are often manufactured via laser metal deposition (LMD) instead of using powder bed based processes. The advantages of LMD process are a high build-up rate with...Go to contribution page
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AYDIN SELTE (Uddeholms AB)26/11/2019, 10:30Electron Beam Melting (EBM) is one of the most promising techniques within Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques, which currently is for the fabrication of high performance components for the aerospace and medical industries, mostly. Among the industrial applications envisioned for the future of EBM, the fabrication of high carbon steels for the tooling industry is of great interest....Go to contribution page
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Eugen Boos (Technische Universität Dresden)26/11/2019, 10:50AM Process- and Quality ControlOral PresentationWith the introduction and further development of additive manufacturing (AM) processes and topology optimization algorithms, components are designed to meet high performance objectives. However, the quality standards required for the high-performance market are not entirely given yet. Known but hard to deterministically quantifiable influences have a considerable effect on the manufacturing...Go to contribution page
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Daniela Ehgartner (Anton Paar)26/11/2019, 10:50Nowadays rheology is quite commonly known and established in industries such as food and beverages, body care, or petroleum; rheology for metal melts is still at the beginning but gets more and more established in both, research and industry. Rheology helps to determine the viscosity of a certain material at different conditions like temperatures or shear rates. Viscosity is one of the most...Go to contribution page
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Mihaela Albu (ZFE Graz)26/11/2019, 11:10This paper presents an advanced microstructural analysis of the powder as well as of the as-built and heat treated additive manufactured parts of Al-alloy and N700 steel. Evolution of the microstructure during the heat-treatment was studied in detail in order to better understand the mechanical properties of the printed parts. For crystallographic and chemical characterization down to atomic...Go to contribution page
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Philipp Kürnsteiner (Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf)26/11/2019, 11:10Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationMaraging steels show outstanding mechanical properties especially regarding strength and toughness. They exhibit a big advantage over e.g. conventional C-containing tool steels regarding their precessability in Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM). Parts produced by Laser Metal Deposition (LMD; DED) possess a unique thermal history: after a rapid quenching from the liquid state, the material...Go to contribution page
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Jan Frostevarg (Luleå University of Technology)26/11/2019, 11:30Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAdditive Manufacturing provides many opportunities to design and manufacture parts that are difficult or not possible to produce with conventional methods, but in some cases even more important, to be able to produce these or any metal replacement parts in remote places like the moon or Mars. In laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), melt pool dynamics and stability is dependent on a large number of...Go to contribution page
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Marco Mitterlehner (TU Wien)26/11/2019, 11:30For AM performed by DLM route, important aspects are powder characteristics such as flowability but also the morphology of the top layer itself. In the present study, the quality of the applied top layer was studied using a self-made tester for the layer building process and a digital microscope with a large depth-of-field to observe the surface of the top layer. These three-dimensional...Go to contribution page
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Edvin Resebo (AMEXCI)26/11/2019, 13:20AMEXCI and its operations.Go to contribution page
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Tobias Brune (SMS group GmbH)26/11/2019, 13:45The SMS group is a group of global players in plant construction and mechanical engineering for the steel and nonferrous metals processing industry with over 14,000 employees in more than 50 global locations. The objective is to provide integrated high-end turn-key solutions for our customers also in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM). Therefore, SMS is targeting to become a full liner...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Pogany (Policy Expert)26/11/2019, 14:15The manufacturing industry, with approximatly 640,000 employees in 29,000 companies and a gross value added of approximatly 50 billion euros per year is the backbone of Austrian economy. Almost every fifth euro in Austria is earned by the domestic manufacturing industry, almost two thirds of the workforce depend directly on it. All the more reason why producing internationally competitive...Go to contribution page
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Petter Damm (Uddeholms AB)26/11/2019, 14:30Additive manufacturing is becoming more common as a manufacturing technique, especially in tooling, but the technology is still rather new. It allows shorter lead time and design freedom such as conformal cooling and in-printed porosity resulting in shorter process cycle times, longer tool life and higher quality of components produced. Sensors and actuators can also be printed in the critical...Go to contribution page
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Nils Stelzer (Aerospace & Advanced Composites GmbH)26/11/2019, 16:00Additive manufacturing technologies allow manufacture of shapes that are not possible with conventional machining. This design freedom is very attractive for space hardware, as equipment performance could be significantly improved with increased shape complexity. Furthermore, conventional machining results in a high buy-to-fly ratio; i.e. more than 70% of the material is transformed to swarf,...Go to contribution page
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Jonas Eriksson (Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery)26/11/2019, 16:00When Siemens in Finspong introduced selective laser melting (SLM) on a broader scale, it became soon clear that the machine performance did not reach the high expectations concerning process stability, repeatability and transferability between several machines of the same type. That is why Siemens with the involvement of machine learning and big data specialists developed the “Siemens AM...Go to contribution page
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Riccardo Casati (Politecnico di Milano)26/11/2019, 16:20Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationBeam-based additive manufacturing processes are widely used for producing components serving in several industrial applications, but only a few materials have been designed and optimized to bear the specific processing conditions offered by these technologies. Nowadays, a limited number of Al alloys are available on the market and employed for 3D printing of structural parts. Al-Si-Mg casting...Go to contribution page
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Faraz deirmina (Sandvik Additive Manufacturing)26/11/2019, 16:20In this study, tempering behaviour of AISI H13 fabricated by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) in as-built and “austenitized and quenched” conditions are evaluated. Compared to the austenitized and quenched counterpart, secondary hardening peak is more pronounced and is shifted to a higher temperature in directly tempered H13. It is shown that the decomposition of retained austenite (RA), up to...Go to contribution page
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Wolfgang Hansal (Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces)26/11/2019, 16:40With the evolution of 3D printing of metals from the prototyping scale towards a serial production the different steps in the production chain have not only to be fully understood but also adjusted to each other and to the requirements of the final product. Among the different process steps, the post-processing of AM metal parts is a crucial element but nevertheless still an open issue at the...Go to contribution page
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Marie-Noemi Bold (Chair for Digital Additive Production, RWTH Aachen University)26/11/2019, 16:40Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationLaser Metal Deposition (LMD) as a repair technology has been established in recent times. A commonly used material for repairs of turbines are nickel-base alloys, such as Inconel 718 (IN718), which presents good mechanical properties at temperatures up to 650 °C and good corrosive resistance. Inclined or curves surfaces pose a challenge in repairing parts with LMD due to the dependence of...Go to contribution page
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Priyanshu Bajaj (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research)26/11/2019, 17:00Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationIn additive manufacturing (AM), parts are built from layer by layer fusion of raw material (eg. wire, powder etc.). Such layer by layer application of heat results in a time-temperature profile which is fundamentally different from any of the contemporary heat treatments. Previous works have established that this unique thermal profile can be exploited for microstructural modifications (eg....Go to contribution page
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Massimo Pellizzari (University of Trento, Dpt. Industrial Engineering, Via Sommarive 9, 38123 Trento, Italy)26/11/2019, 17:00The AlSi10Mg alloy was fabricated by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) using different post processing conditions. Tensile and dilatometric specimens were obtained with longitudinal axis parallel to the building direction. A first set of samples has been directly aged in the as-built state (AB) while a second batch underwent solubilization annealing (SA) at 540°C for 60min just before artificial...Go to contribution page
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Sara Munktell (Swerim AB)26/11/2019, 17:20The market and research for additive manufactured (AM) materials are currently in fast development. However, there are few studies on the influence of the different AM processes on corrosion properties of the final materials. Moreover, due to the heating history during manufacturing process AM metals have a more complex microstructure compared to conventionally manufactured metals. Since the...Go to contribution page
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Cecilie Vase Funch (Technical University of Denmark (DTU))26/11/2019, 17:20The selective laser melting process involves very high cooling rates and consequently results in non-equilibrium microstructures of the printed metal. Examples of this are the cellular sub-grain structure observed in austenitic stainless steels and the very fine hierachical martensite formed in Ti6Al4V titanium. Both stainless steels and titanium alloys are commonly heat treated in order to...Go to contribution page
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Anton Alveflo27/11/2019, 09:00Additive Manufacturing offers lot of opportunities , especially for tool and components. Besides all positive aspects, there are risk as well, as AM is only successful, if the right design with the right material is combined. There are many USPs being able to be achieved if the complete value chain is consider and the potential is recognised. In this presentation, this approach will be proved...Go to contribution page
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Christian Höller (Graz University of Technology)27/11/2019, 09:30Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationSelective Laser Melting (SLM), as a leading metal-based Additive Manufacturing technology, has constantly evolved in the past years, but it is still a cost-intense manufacturing technology. One of the major reasons for this is the slow build rate for parts produced by SLM machines. To address this problem, this study presents advanced parameters for the processing of 316L stainless steel which...Go to contribution page
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Sofia Brorson (Uddeholms AB)27/11/2019, 09:30There is an increasing trend in terms of utilization of Aluminium parts produced through high pressure die casting (HPDC) for parts with increased complexity in design and size, especially for the automotive industry, driven by the weight saving philosophy. This places increased demands on the performance of the tool steels utilized for HPDC. Besides the development of new tool steels to...Go to contribution page
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Mikael Åsberg (Karlstad University)27/11/2019, 09:50With additive manufacturing the internal cooling channels can be manufactured to an optimized geometry in order to have conformal cooling. In die casting soldering and heat checking are the main problems. Soldering is a result of the interaction between the steel and the molten aluminium. Heat checking is related to thermal fatigue. The development of AM powder is still at an early stage and...Go to contribution page
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Josef Hodek (COMTES FHT)27/11/2019, 09:50Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationThis study deals with investigation of bulk parts created by Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. The numerical simulation of AM was used for description of thermal behaviour of bulk parts during the production process. Industrial metal 3D printer InssTek MX-600 was chosen for experimental device because it is classified as a Directed Energy Deposition (DED) technology by ASTM. Further, an...Go to contribution page
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Valentina Vicario (MIMETE Srl)27/11/2019, 10:10Performances of plastic injection moulds heavily affect productivity and yields of high volume industries as packaging, cosmetics, …. RB is historically specialized in mould design and production and the introduction of a laser bed printer enlarged its possibilities especially in terms of optimization of cooling channels, more numerous and closer to the functional surface. RB started...Go to contribution page
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Christin Aumayr (voestalpine Böhler Edelstahl GmbH & Co KG)27/11/2019, 11:00Additive manufacturing of steel powders gained in recent years a lot of attention. In the early stages of Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) of steel powders the well-known materials 1.2709, 316L and 17-4 PH have been used due to their very low carbon content. However, since these materials are on the one hand quite soft (316L) and on the other hand in some cases too highly alloyed for specific...Go to contribution page
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Paola Bassani (CNR ICMATE)27/11/2019, 11:00Among additive manufacturing technologies, selective laser melting (SLM) is characterised by high solidification cooling rate. SLM can promote the formation of metastable phases and the effects of heat treatments on SLMed parts can be quite different respect to cast material. This has already been demonstrated for AlSi10Mg alloy. Not only the precipitation of hardening phases, like Mg2Si, was...Go to contribution page
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Pierre Foret (Linde)27/11/2019, 11:20This presentation aims to give insight how Linde, the largest gas company worldwide, has invested in Additive Manufacturing (AM) over the past years. The two main insights are the development of gas-based technologies to support the industrialization of AM and the usage of the specific advantages of the technology in the development of gas applications like burners and nozzles. Atmospheric...Go to contribution page
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Anders Kvarned (Uddeholms AB)27/11/2019, 11:20It has been hypothesized that the design flexibility offered by additive manufacturing (AM) can be beneficially employed to improve tool life and part quality in high pressure die casting (HPDC) applications, particularly, to address challenges originating from inadequate temperature management. The principle challenge in terms of adapting the AM technology in these applications though is the...Go to contribution page
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Giulio Maistro (Uddeholms AB)27/11/2019, 11:40Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) is a well-established technology for reduction of residual porosity in cast materials as well as production of powder metallurgy tool steels. With the advent of additive manufacturing, especially for the medical and aerospace industry, HIP has become a standard treatment to close residual porosity or lack of fusion defects in order to increase the performance of 3d...Go to contribution page
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Priyanshu Bajaj (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research)27/11/2019, 11:40Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationThere is growing interest in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) or Selective Laser Melting (SLM) manufacturing of high conductivity metals such as copper and refractory metals. SLM manufacturing of high thermal conductivity metals is particularly difficult. In case of refractory metals, the difficulty is amplified because of their high melting point and brittle behaviour. Rapid process...Go to contribution page
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Stefan Thundal (Additive Innovation and Manufacturing Sweden)27/11/2019, 12:00Since 2 years or so AIM Sweden is working closely with Siemens Gas & Power in Duisburg with the goal to qualify the production of shrouded compressor impellers based on the EBM technology. This application sets up number of technical challenges that calls for solutions which are not to be found in the “std EBM toolbox”. AIM Sweden is well under way to do so and we look forward to share some...Go to contribution page
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Simon Bubb (Ulster University)27/11/2019, 12:00AM Process- and Quality ControlOral PresentationMetal-Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is an Additive Manufacturing technique, capable of producing near fully dense metal parts with good properties and complex geometries. Especially in the case of the manufacture of titanium alloy parts by this process, a post-processing heat treatment is required, however a number of different ones are known. In this project we manufactured parts from Ti6Al4V...Go to contribution page
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