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Prof. Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum (Managing Director, ACAM Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing GmbH)30/09/2020, 10:10Additive Manufacturing, especially 3D metal printing is becoming more and more essential to manufacturing: it allows to create, quickly, fully functioning parts with high mechanical properties, and sometimes geometries that would be impossible to make with traditional manufacturing techniques. Consequently, most of the world’s top companies have taken notice and are making ambitious moves to...Go to contribution page
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Dr Johannes Homa (Lithoz GmbH)30/09/2020, 10:40Austria was and still is an excellent breeding ground for additive manufacturing. The combination of innovation, world class science and excellent engineers has led to Austria not only being a pioneer and trailblazer in this field, but also being world market leader in some areas. Various clusters and thematic focuses have formed and various initiatives have also been launched. Thus, not only...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benedikt Blitz (SMR Premium GmbH)30/09/2020, 11:10Recent Research TopicsThe speech will also focus on the production of Metal Powders and Powder Metallurgical Steels and especially its associated production technologies like HIP, MIM and AM. As they are and will become key future core technologies for a number of demanding products and thus for the usage in different associated industries. The presentation will also highlight the actual supply and demand...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Nader Asnafi (Örebro University)30/09/2020, 12:30Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral PresentationAdditive manufacturing of production tools through laser-based powder bed fusion is at the focus of this presentation. Design and manufacturing of production tools & dies for stamping of sheet metal parts, cores (inserts) for injection moulding of plastic components and other types of production tools are addressed. Solid and topology optimized tools are tested, compared with the...Go to contribution page
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Mr Jan Platl (Montanuniversität Leoben, Department of Materials Science)30/09/2020, 12:50Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral PresentationLaser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) provides advantages compared to conventional manufacturing methods, such as forging or casting, in terms of design freedom. New opportunities regarding tool geometries are introduced. Due to the layered build-up of parts, internal cooling channels can be manufactured in tools enhancing cutting speed and consequently productivity for special applications. Since...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Olga Sulcova (MAGNA Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik), Mrs Tanja Pfeifer (Pankl Systems Austria GmbH)30/09/2020, 13:10Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral PresentationJoint project of Pankl and MAGNA regarding 3D printing in the automotive industry. The aim is to use additive manufacturing for prototype production (structural components) in the automotive industry. These prototypes must already meet the characteristics of series production in the automotive industry. Currently, they are mainly produced using the die casting process. The 3D printed...Go to contribution page
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Mr Lucas Robatto (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica)30/09/2020, 13:30Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral PresentationAdditive manufacturing allows the redesign of machine elements with concepts previously underexplored, due to limitations of conventional manufacturing processes. For automotive gears, these new concepts have the potential to provide performance benefits in terms of efficiency, noise and vibration. However, the surface integrity induced by additive manufacturing may be associated to challenges...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ileana Panaitescu (AC2T research GmbH)30/09/2020, 14:20Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral Presentation3D printed components and tools operate under severe conditions that often require additional surface protection and functionality. In order to increase the lifetime and endurance of 3D printed components used for forming of metal parts in the automotive sector, the present paper proposes their functionalization using multifunctional coatings with increased wear resistance and friction...Go to contribution page
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Jelena Petruša (Joanneum Research Materials)30/09/2020, 14:40Tools, Space and Aircraft, Automotive, Medical and othersOral PresentationAdditive manufacturing (AM), in contrast to conventional manufacturing technologies, can produce functionally customized metal components of complex shape and geometry directly from 3D computer model, joining materials layer upon layer. Representative additive manufacturing technique, Selective Laser Melting (SLM) based on the complete-melting energy density for titanium alloy was investigated...Go to contribution page
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Dr Richard Görgl (JOANNEUM RESEARCH)30/09/2020, 15:00Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAn introduction into L-DED (also often known as Laser Metal Deposition - LMD) will be given by discussing the principles and a few applications. Emphasis is laid on the use of the Siemens NX Additive Manufacturing Add-on, which was formerly developed exclusively for DMG Mori and is openly sold for any systems since end of 2019. This software package for path-planning was then immediately...Go to contribution page
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Mr John Meuthen (RHP Technology GmbH)30/09/2020, 15:20Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationLight weight alloys, but also super alloys are widely used in aerospace industries for large parts. On the one hand the market e.g. for titanium is growing 3.8 % per year to $5.4 Billion in 2030, on the other hand high buy-to-fly ratios of typically 70% due to machining produces incredible amounts of expensive waste. Metal additive manufacturing processes as powder bed fusion give the chance...Go to contribution page
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Mr Adrien Mouchard (Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon), Mr David Tanner (Bernal Institute, University of Limerick)30/09/2020, 16:10Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationWhile already widespread for cladding, the Laser Blown Powder process is also becoming a major tool for 3D printing, with applications such as engine turbine repair. Some of them include deposition of thin-walled structure over a substrate with highly variable topography. Resulting deposition angles can affect the final wall geometry and could be detrimental for thin structures with tight...Go to contribution page
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Mr Benjamin Meier (Joanneum Research Materials)30/09/2020, 16:30Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAs all technical production processes, every additive manufacturing technology offer advantages and drawbacks. While laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) offers high precision and fine details, Direct Energy Deposition (DED) offers the possibility of creating large parts with high build rates. Aim of this study is to investigate material properties of hybrid parts made from Ti6Al4V by these two...Go to contribution page
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Mr Stefan Belitz (Mercedes-Benz AG)30/09/2020, 16:50Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationDue to the continuously growing variety of products in response to the increasing customer demand for individuality, strict time and cost targets must be achieved in toolmaking. New manufacturing techniques are being researched and integrated into the production process to reduce tool manufacturing costs. The Laser Metal Deposition process (LMD) has already established itself as a flexible...Go to contribution page
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Mr Marco Mitterlehner (TU Wien)30/09/2020, 17:10Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationMoisture is often claimed to be one of the main reasons for poor processability of powders when using L-PBF processes. To determine the influence of moisture on the processability, gas atomized superalloy powder IN718 has been printed in two parallel runs: once in the as-received and dry condition and once after four weeks of storage in an atmosphere containing a relative humidity of 75 %....Go to contribution page
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Dr Martina Meisnar (Materials & Processes Engineer, European Space Agency)01/10/2020, 08:30The development and manufacturing of space hardware is strongly based on “heritage”, a concept that favours well known and tested components that ideally have flown on board space missions before. The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) opened new opportunities for the space industry, which typically produces parts in low quantities and places high value on mass reduction and design freedom....Go to contribution page
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Mr Gregor Graf (Rosswag GmbH)01/10/2020, 09:00Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationThe requirements regarding the materials in use are steadily increasing in the AM market. As part of a GER-CAN research project (HiPTSLAM), the development of high-performance tool steels for AM is a promising topic regarding the acceptance of LPBF technology for functionally optimized die, forming and cutting tools. Therefore, a holistic development process to efficiently qualify new...Go to contribution page
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Mr Crawford Cullen (University of Strathclyde, Advanced Forming Research Centre)01/10/2020, 09:20Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAdditive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are providing exciting opportunities for repair and remanufacture of industrial components. Laser Metal Deposition with powder (LMD-p) is an ideal candidate process for selective remanufacture of high value tools and dies exhibiting wear, particularly on complex geometries found in hot forging applications. When used in combination with a multi-axis CNC...Go to contribution page
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Mr Rudolf Gradinger (LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH)01/10/2020, 09:40Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationThe great acceptance of additive manufacturing in tool making business was to a significant extent spurred by the opportunities to create complex shaped, 3D oriented internal cooling channels in tool inserts. These benefits were mainly achieved with Powder-bed technologies, providing reduced cycle times in e.g. injection moulding. Further achievements were made in post-treatment of 3D-printed...Go to contribution page
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Mr Tobias Pichler (Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT)01/10/2020, 10:00Laser Melting, Electron Beam Melting & Direct Energy Deposition ProcessesOral PresentationAdditive manufacturing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) provides breakthrough new capabilities in the fabrication of metallic components for a variety of applications. Nevertheless, major challenges remain. These include long process times, limited process robustness and thermal stress. Currently, LPBF process parameters are set globally for the entire part to be build, and do not take...Go to contribution page
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Dr Martin Dopler (hightech metal Prozessentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH)01/10/2020, 10:50The increasing demands on metal powders for additive manufacturing applications go hand in hand with an increasing energy consumption for producing these powders. For example, finer powders can be produced by increasing atomization gas pressure and temperature, or also by increasing melt superheat. More spherical particles (or particles with a lower oxygen content) can be produced by using...Go to contribution page
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Christoph Turk (voestalpine Böhler Edelstahl GmbH & Co KG)01/10/2020, 11:10The influence of additive manufacturing in various industries like automotive, aerospace, medicine and aviation is increasing constantly. Especially steel grades gain a lot of attention at this new and fast developing market. However, the weldability of a material defines and limits the processability for the Laser-Powder-Bed fusion technique. Therefore, case hardening steels, characterized by...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christopher Hulme-Smith (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)01/10/2020, 11:30In order to create a dense printed part of the right shape and dimensions, it is vital to have both a good understanding of the optimum printing process and powder that exhibits the right behaviour. Many studies have investigated the former, but relatively few have focused on the latter. Furthermore, there is no agreed method for spreading powder for testing or for how that layer should be...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Bonfanti (Mimete Srl)01/10/2020, 11:50One of the main qualitative risks related to powder metallurgy is contamination of metal powders: the mixing between different alloys, in fact, could cause anomalous segregation and possible undesired precipitation of secondary phases that might act as failure initiation. MIMETE is very careful about this aspect and applies strict rules all along the production process to avoid that different...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Bonfanti (Mimete Srl)01/10/2020, 12:10Particle Size Distribution (PSD) is usually the first requirement of metal powders users and is considered extremely critical in Additive Manufacturing. Unfortunately this subject is not yet sufficiently standardized and it is difficult to define unambiguous technical specifications for all powders. MIMETE laboratory is equipped with mechanical sieves, laser diffraction, image analysis and...Go to contribution page
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Martin Pfaffeneder-Kmen (RENA Technologies Austria Gmbh)01/10/2020, 13:30Creativity has no limits with 3D-printing of metals allowing the realisation of new geometries that cannot be provided by any other production method. Nevertheless, it is a long way from an innovative idea to a 3D-printing based production process. This presentation will introduce a successful user case, systematically from the first draft to an industrially useable part. Supported by the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mihaela Albu (ZFE Graz)01/10/2020, 14:00This paper presents correlative microscopy studies performed for the characterization of powders and additive manufactured parts. Starting from µm scale down to atomic resolution, micrographs and chemical analyses provide important information about the micro- and nano-structure as well as about mechanisms that can influence the properties of the final parts. Different investigation...Go to contribution page
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Mr Yannik Wilkens (SMS group GmbH)01/10/2020, 14:20An optimized powder atomization plant for the production of high-quality metal powder for Additive Manufacturing (AM) was developed at SMS group and set up at their 3D Competence Center in Mönchengladbach, Germany. To ensure the high quality of the powder produced, the implementation of adequate powder characterization is essential. The definition of AM process- and component-related...Go to contribution page
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Dr Pelle Mellin (Swerim AB)01/10/2020, 14:40Moisture can potentially affect any production process that use metal powder, both the processing itself and the material that is produced. Here we study laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and the effect of moisture on built nickel-base material. We also present research on how humidity, and in turn moisture content, can affect processability including spreadability. In the first part, one lot...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Maurizio Vedani (Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)01/10/2020, 15:00The contribution describes the investigation carried out on novel steel powders based on the Fe-0,3C-1Cr-Mo alloy system to be processed by Laser-Powder Bed Fusion. Two powder batches have been studied in this respect, considering a reference gas atomized version and a variant of it produced by water atomization and post- treatment, with a modified chemistry. The materials have been...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anders Brantnell (Uppsala University), Dr Serdar Temiz (Uppsala University Department of Civil and Engineering Sciences Division of Industrial Engineering and Management), Dr Simon Okwir (Uppsala University)01/10/2020, 15:50Additive manufacturing technologies is considered as a disruptive technology that will not only to create new opportunities but also threats to disrupt existing traditional industries. This new way of manufacturing will also require companies to not only revise but also consider new business models. Organizations using traditional manufacturing methods should start to explore how additive...Go to contribution page
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Dr Christian Kukla (Montanuniversitaet Leoben - Industrial Liaison Department)01/10/2020, 16:10In the last few years, Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) gained increasing interest as a production method for metal and ceramic parts. Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is a type of material extrusion additive manufacturing (MEAM) and it is one of the most commonly used polymer-based additive manufacturing techniques. FFF could also be used to produce green parts with complex geometry out of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Jurgen Stampfl (TU Wien)01/10/2020, 16:30Lithography-based methods for additive manufacturing of polymers, ceramics and metals enable the fabrication of precise, complex-shaped parts with excellent surface quality in applications like biomedical engineering, automotive and consumer products. Photopolymers contributed 33% to the worldwide materials sales in 2019, thus making lithography-based AM (L-AM) the most widely used AM...Go to contribution page
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Dr Johann Mogeritsch (Montanuniversitaet Leoben)01/10/2020, 16:50Ti-6Al-4V is used since years for additive manufacturing. The alpha-beta titanium alloy shows an excellent strength-to-weight ratio in combination with superb corrosion resistance. It is one of the most commonly used titanium alloys and is applied in a wide range of applications where low density and excellent protection against gradual destruction by chemical and/or electrochemical reaction...Go to contribution page
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Dr Armin Wiedenegger (voestalpine Additive Manufcaturing Center GmbH)02/10/2020, 09:00Innovative solutions in AM tools are already able to contribute to decarbonization. Examples from the areas of aluminium die casting and plastic injection moulding are used to clearly show us the possible potentials. Thermal management is the focus of the entire process chain. Particularly in an energy-intensive process such as aluminum die casting, the reduction of throughput time and the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Franz Haas (Institute of Production Engineering, Graz University of Technology)02/10/2020, 09:30Post-processing of AM partsOral PresentationThe market of powder bed fusion systems is still characterized by machines that are basically designed 10 to 20 years ago. A completely new technique (SLEDM) has been developed and patented at the Institute of Production Engineering at Graz University of Technology. The unique system works with high-power LED energy sources and a very low amount of powder. The build direction is from the top...Go to contribution page
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Dr Rainer Beccard (LUNOVU GmbH)02/10/2020, 09:50Post-processing of AM partsOral PresentationLaser metal deposition (LMD) is a preferred process for metal additive manufacturing due to its unique advantages in terms of build speed, flexibility, its capability to use multiple materials and its ability to deposit metal on non-flat surfaces. However, true 3D process on free-form surfaces require time-consuming programming or teach-in procedures. To overcome this, we have developed a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Clemens Maucher (Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen)02/10/2020, 10:10Post-processing of AM partsOral PresentationAdditively manufactured (AM) components have to be post processed in order to achieve the required component properties. This contribution presents methods and approaches to meet the challenges of implementing an additive-subtractive process chain. Additive manufacturing processes are no longer used only for prototypes but also to build production parts. Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)...Go to contribution page
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Ms Laura Wirths (Universität der Bundeswehr München)02/10/2020, 11:00Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) is an additive manufacturing process for the production of complex high quality metal parts. The surface roughness has an important impact on the mechanical behavior like crack initiation or fatigue life. Especially for complex geometries with its large amount of internal surfaces it is not possible to improve all surfaces by post-processing or even to determine...Go to contribution page
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1. INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF POWDER MOISTURE ON THE SPREADABILITY USING THE SPREADING TESTERMr Marco Mitterlehner (TU Wien)02/10/2020, 11:20Moisture is often regarded as one of the main reasons for poor processability of powders using L-PBF processes. To determine the influence of moisture on the spreadability a superalloy powder IN718 commonly used for SLM has been conditioned in two different states: once in the as-received and dry condition and once in a moist condition achieving by storing the powder four weeks in an...Go to contribution page
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Mr Massimiliano Bonesso (INFN - Sezione di Padova)02/10/2020, 11:40At the National Institute for Nuclear Physics – Padova Division, the main research of the Development and Innovation on Additive Manufacturing Group is focused on developing new materials for the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) technology. One of the major benefits of this technology is the possibility of fabrication of complex geometries and features in only one-step of production. In...Go to contribution page
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Mr Pietro Rebesan (INFN Padua Division)02/10/2020, 12:00Refractory metals belong to the group of transition metals and they are also called “ultra-high temperature materials”. In addition to the high melting temperatures, they have properties that make them suitable for many applications. Tungsten, Molybdenum, and Tantalum produced by laser powder bed fusion process are the subjects of this study. Production of refractory metals by Additive...Go to contribution page
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Mr Carlos Lopez (Flanders Make)02/10/2020, 12:20Over the last years, additive manufacturing (AM) has transitioned from a system and materials to a complete end-to-end solution business. Printing cost becomes then a major factor to reduce in order to achieve the business goals. There are continuous attempts from additive manufacturing players to reduce material costs and increase process productivity such that AM becomes a key driver of...Go to contribution page
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