Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder
Abstract Metal additive manufacturing provides a path to optimized component design with significant realized advantages in the medical and aerospace industries. Limitations to expansion to other industries, e.g. automotive, and to enabling supply chain relief is the limited number of materials avai...
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| author | J. Hunter Martin John E. Barnes Kirk A. Rogers Jacob Hundley Darby L. LaPlant Siavash Ghanbari Jung-Ting Tsai David F. Bahr |
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| description | Abstract Metal additive manufacturing provides a path to optimized component design with significant realized advantages in the medical and aerospace industries. Limitations to expansion to other industries, e.g. automotive, and to enabling supply chain relief is the limited number of materials available and the ability to produce material on demand. Current additive manufacturing powder feedstock is produced at large, remote atomization facilities with long lead times. Here we identify a new “on-demand” powder production technology, cold mechanically derived, able to produce non-spherical powder for additive manufacturing, with high efficiency, and wrought equivalent material properties. We analyze the powder flow characteristics and mechanical properties comparing typical gas atomized with the new process demonstrating wrought property equivalence despite power sourcing. This research will enable expansion of additional alloy systems as well as encourage the processing of non-spherical powders to expand the available supply base of new alloys for additive manufacturing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a842685a50a74d05bf8ba72e88dbf91a2024-12-15T12:10:32ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Materials2662-44432023-05-01411710.1038/s43246-023-00365-4Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powderJ. Hunter Martin0John E. Barnes1Kirk A. Rogers2Jacob Hundley3Darby L. LaPlant4Siavash Ghanbari5Jung-Ting Tsai6David F. Bahr7HRL Laboratories LLCMetal Powder WorksThe Barnes Global Advisors LLCHRL Laboratories LLCHRL Laboratories LLCSchool of Materials Engineering, Purdue UniversityArgonne National LaboratorySchool of Materials Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstract Metal additive manufacturing provides a path to optimized component design with significant realized advantages in the medical and aerospace industries. Limitations to expansion to other industries, e.g. automotive, and to enabling supply chain relief is the limited number of materials available and the ability to produce material on demand. Current additive manufacturing powder feedstock is produced at large, remote atomization facilities with long lead times. Here we identify a new “on-demand” powder production technology, cold mechanically derived, able to produce non-spherical powder for additive manufacturing, with high efficiency, and wrought equivalent material properties. We analyze the powder flow characteristics and mechanical properties comparing typical gas atomized with the new process demonstrating wrought property equivalence despite power sourcing. This research will enable expansion of additional alloy systems as well as encourage the processing of non-spherical powders to expand the available supply base of new alloys for additive manufacturing.https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-023-00365-4 |
| spellingShingle | J. Hunter Martin John E. Barnes Kirk A. Rogers Jacob Hundley Darby L. LaPlant Siavash Ghanbari Jung-Ting Tsai David F. Bahr Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder Communications Materials |
| title | Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder |
| title_full | Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder |
| title_fullStr | Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder |
| title_full_unstemmed | Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder |
| title_short | Additive manufacturing of a high-performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non-spherical powder |
| title_sort | additive manufacturing of a high performance aluminum alloy from cold mechanically derived non spherical powder |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-023-00365-4 |
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