A Window of Opportunity to Accelerate Alloy Development for Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies present an array of benefits including lightweight structures (lattices, triply periodic minimal surfaces, and other organic shapes), consolidation of parts, limiting necessity for tooling, and lead time reduction. These benefits can help to augment manufactu...

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Published in:Quality (Wheaton) 2023-08, Vol.62 (8), p.35-35
Main Author: Ribic, Brandon D
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Additive manufacturing
Alloy development
Alloys
Aluminum alloys
Defense
Fixtures
Gas turbine engines
Lattices
Lead time
Life cycle costs
Manufacturing
Materials fatigue
Mechanical properties
Metal fatigue
Military applications
Minimal surfaces
Oxidation
Product development
Product life cycle
Productivity
R&D
Raw materials
Research & development
Supply chains
Test equipment
Tooling
Workforce
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Summary:Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies present an array of benefits including lightweight structures (lattices, triply periodic minimal surfaces, and other organic shapes), consolidation of parts, limiting necessity for tooling, and lead time reduction. These benefits can help to augment manufacturing productivity, yield, and cost. For these reasons, AM has been considered for a variety of aviation, automotive, medical, energy, space, and defense applications. AM has also challenged the way manufacturing technologies are selectively utilized. AM has shown substantial merit to support rapid testing and evaluation of novel design concepts and product development has been realized for the manufacturing of test equipment, jigs, fixtures, as well as test parts. AM also offers the ability to impact product life cycle cost as a repair technology.
ISSN:0360-9936
1937-4410