Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity

Additive manufacturing methods continue to move towards production ready technologies with the widely extolled virtues of rapid transition from design to part and enhanced design freedoms. However, due to fundamental limitations of laser based processes for metal additive manufacturing, there is a s...

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Main Authors: Oyelola, Olusola, Crawforth, Pete, M'Saoubi, Rachid, Clare, Adam T.
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Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48579/
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author Oyelola, Olusola
Crawforth, Pete
M'Saoubi, Rachid
Clare, Adam T.
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Crawforth, Pete
M'Saoubi, Rachid
Clare, Adam T.
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description Additive manufacturing methods continue to move towards production ready technologies with the widely extolled virtues of rapid transition from design to part and enhanced design freedoms. However, due to fundamental limitations of laser based processes for metal additive manufacturing, there is a significant ongoing need for these parts to be subject to additional machining operations. This paper reports on a study to investigate the machining behavior and surface integrity of Ti-6Al-4 V components which have been produced by direct metal deposition using wire feedstocks. Simple geometries are produced and the resulting effect of tooling type is reported. Inhomogeneities in the deposition process as a result of non-uniform cooling and porosity are shown to have a deleterious effect on the surface integrity of the resulting part and the machinability of such components. In addition, strategies for the machining of AM parts which consist of graduated material structures are also proposed here.
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spelling nottingham-485792020-05-04T17:57:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48579/ Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity Oyelola, Olusola Crawforth, Pete M'Saoubi, Rachid Clare, Adam T. Additive manufacturing methods continue to move towards production ready technologies with the widely extolled virtues of rapid transition from design to part and enhanced design freedoms. However, due to fundamental limitations of laser based processes for metal additive manufacturing, there is a significant ongoing need for these parts to be subject to additional machining operations. This paper reports on a study to investigate the machining behavior and surface integrity of Ti-6Al-4 V components which have been produced by direct metal deposition using wire feedstocks. Simple geometries are produced and the resulting effect of tooling type is reported. Inhomogeneities in the deposition process as a result of non-uniform cooling and porosity are shown to have a deleterious effect on the surface integrity of the resulting part and the machinability of such components. In addition, strategies for the machining of AM parts which consist of graduated material structures are also proposed here. Elsevier 2016-06-05 Article PeerReviewed Oyelola, Olusola, Crawforth, Pete, M'Saoubi, Rachid and Clare, Adam T. (2016) Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity. Procedia CIRP, 45 . pp. 119-122. ISSN 2212-8271 Additive Manufacturing; Machining; Titanium; Microstructure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.066 doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.066 doi:10.1016/j.procir.2016.02.066
spellingShingle Additive Manufacturing; Machining; Titanium; Microstructure
Oyelola, Olusola
Crawforth, Pete
M'Saoubi, Rachid
Clare, Adam T.
Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title_full Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title_fullStr Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title_full_unstemmed Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title_short Machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
title_sort machining of additively manufactured parts: implications for surface integrity
topic Additive Manufacturing; Machining; Titanium; Microstructure
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