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Fringe Friday: Future of AM in COVID

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Source: AMPOWER Report

Sometimes our editors find items that are not exactly “heat treat” but do deal with interesting developments in one of our key markets: aerospace, automotive, medical, energy, or general manufacturing. To celebrate getting to the “fringe” of the weekend, Heat Treat Today presents today’s Heat Treat Fringe Friday Best of the Web article on how COVID-19 affected the additive manufacturing (AM) industry.

The trajectory of AM has been altered due to COVID, but specifically by what has happened to supply lines, traceability, and service providers. Further topics, details, graphs, and analyses are highlighted in this article by AMPOWER Report: “Severe economy impact from disruption of trade routes.”

An excerpt:

[blockquote author=”AMPOWER” style=”1″]This reorientation of supply chains offers significant potential for Additive Manufacturing. The accompanying flexibility and availability can represent a considerable added value that has hardly or not at all been considered so far and may also justify a cost increase due to risk reduction.[/blockquote]

Read more: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to the Additive Manufacturing market

 

 

 

 

 

 

All images from Additive-Manufacturing-Report.com.

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New Study in AM Released

/ FEATURED NEWS, HIPING TECHNICAL CONTENT, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT, SINTERING POWDER/METAL TECHNICAL CONTENT

Typical tensile properties of AM Ti-6Al-4V in as build condition

Source: AMPOWER

There is so much to learn in so little time, but if you are at all interested in additive manufacturing (AM), you will want to check out this new study.

This Heat Treat Today’s Best of the Web feature is full of scholarly findings presented in an easily accessible PDF for free. Three insights that the study elaborates on are: Titanium represents largest share of materials in AM; HIP cycles are not optimized for AM; and part performance may be increased by optimized HIP cycles. The study was developed by Dr.-Ing. Maximilian Munsch, Matthias Schmidt-Lehr, and Dr.-Ing. Eric Wycisk (pictured above in that order).

You can check out these summary insights of the study, or download the complete study for free at “Additive Manufacturing Material Performance Optimization: Increasing properties of Ti-6Al-4V parts by AM specific HIP treatments.”

An excerpt: “To increase the part performance hot isostatic pressing (HIP) is commonly used for highly demanding applications and has become a common post- process for titanium AM parts as well. However, the typically used temperature-pressure-cycles for AM are derived from HIP processes originally used for casting parts.”

 

 

All images were sourced from www.am-power.de/.

 

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