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OPTICS AND LASERS IN ENGINEERING
Volume 100, Issue -, Pages 9-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2017.07.003
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Additive manufacturing; Micro components; Wire feeding system; Directed energy deposition
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In this work, the micro laser metal wire deposition (mu LMWD) process is studied as an additive manufacturing process for manufacturing thin walled structures with high aspect ratio. The developed mu LMWD system consisted of a flash-pumped Nd:YAG laser source operating with ms-long pulses and an in-house developed wire feeding system. Processing conditions were investigated for single and multi-layer deposition in terms of geometry, microhardness and material use efficiency. Thin-walled structures with aspect ratio up to 20 were manufactured successfully, where layer width was between 700 and 800 mu m. In multi-layer deposition conditions, the material use efficiency was observed to be close to 100%. The microhardness over the build direction was homogenous. The results show that the mu LMWD process yields geometrical resolution close to powder-bed additive manufacturing processes, while maintaining the benefits of using wire feedstock. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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