On the use of slurry as an alternative to dry powder for laser powder bed fusion of 316L stainless steel
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a well-established additive manufacturing process for producing high-quality metal components with unparallelled design freedom. However, LPBF also has its limitations, including a limited materials palette, low productivity and high costs, mainly due to the expensi...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Additive manufacturing letters 2024-12, Vol.11, p.100230, Article 100230 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a well-established additive manufacturing process for producing high-quality metal components with unparallelled design freedom. However, LPBF also has its limitations, including a limited materials palette, low productivity and high costs, mainly due to the expensive feedstock powders. These powders must meet highly stringent requirements regarding particle size (15–45μm), particle size distribution (mono-modal) and morphology (spherical), which is achievable only through expensive gas- and plasma-atomised powders. This paper investigates slurry-LPBF as an alternative to conventional dry powder LPBF. The use of slurry removes some of the stringent powder requirements by allowing deposition of smaller particles with a variety of particle morphologies. Slurry-LPBF can therefore increase the useful yield of the atomisation process and expand the materials palette for LPBF, by enabling the use of powders for which atomised variants are not commercially available. This study used 316L stainless steel powder with an average particle size |
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ISSN: | 2772-3690 2772-3690 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.addlet.2024.100230 |