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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Année : 2016

Building new entities from existing titanium part by electron beam melting: microstructures and mechanical properties

Guillaume Mandil
van Thao Le
Henri Paris

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Electron beam melting (EBM) has been recognized as an emerging additive manufacturing technology, which allows the production of fully dense parts from various metals. The technique builds parts using an electron beam to melt metal powder, layer by layer, in a powder bed. Thus, complex parts, including internal structures, can be made directly from 3D CAD models without special fixtures and cutting tools. Much research is conducted to study the microstructure and mechanical properties of EBM-built parts or to investigate the effects of EBM process parameters on the quality of parts. However, using EBM for building new features on an existing part has received little attention from the research community. Due to its performance, EBM seems able to transform an end-of-life (EoL) part/existing part into a new part without returning to the level of raw material. The aim of this study is to validate such principle. In this paper, an EBM machine was used to produce new Ti-6Al-4V features on a Ti-6Al-4V plate, which was considered as a useful core retrieved from an EoL product. The built samples, including EBM-built features and Ti-6Al-4V plate, were investigated in terms of their microstructure and mechanical properties. The results showed that EBM technique allows new features with a suitable microstructure and controlled mechanical properties to be built on an existing part. Moreover, the EBM-built features have a strong bond with the existing part leading to the same mechanical characteristics as original part. These demonstrate that the EBM technology has a promising potential for producing new parts from EoL parts/existing parts.
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hal-01230836 , version 1 (19-11-2015)
hal-01230836 , version 2 (03-12-2015)

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Guillaume Mandil, van Thao Le, Henri Paris, Mathieu Suard. Building new entities from existing titanium part by electron beam melting: microstructures and mechanical properties. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2016, 85 (5), pp.1835 - 1846. ⟨10.1007/s00170-015-8049-3⟩. ⟨hal-01230836v2⟩
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