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CIRP JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue -, Pages 233-243Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cirpj.2020.05.014
Keywords
Additive manufacturing; Powder; Stainless steel; Chip
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- Grainger Institute of Engineering
- Graduate Engineering Research Scholars fellowship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003921]
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The objective of this work is to study the feasibility of mechanically-generated feedstock for use in directed energy deposition (DED) processing. Mechanically-generated powder was created by machining 316L stainless steel bar stock followed by comminution of the resulting chips through oscillation ball milling. This methodology's production yield and processing time for the specifications of a commercially available DED system are presented along with resulting powder morphology. Performance of the mechanically-generated feedstock was compared to gas-atomized powder and evaluated based on the following figures of merit: flowability, printed part height, printed part density, and chemical compositional stability throughout processing. Mechanically-generated feedstock was created to meet deposition system requirements. Compared with gas-atomized powder, mechanically-generated powder did not flow as well through the powder-delivery system. Parts printed from mechanically-generated feedstock were generally taller than their counterparts from gas-atomized feedstock, but their densities were less predictable. Chemical composition of prints using both feedstocks was within standard nominal compositions for 316L stainless steel. (C) 2020 CIRP.
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