Laser powder bed fusion of a Magnesium-SiC metal matrix composite

Wessel W. Wits; Marc de Smit; Kamaal Al-Hamdani; Adam T. Clare

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.137

Laser powder bed fusion of a Magnesium-SiC metal matrix composite

Wessel W. Wits^*, Marc de Smit, Kamaal Al-Hamdani, Adam T. Clare

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Abstract

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is a commercially available technology to industry for a selected range of materials only. Opportune to the next stage of LPBF will be the development of multi-material capabilities alongside methods for rapid formulation of new materials. To this end the present work compares two viable material preparation techniques, namely ball milling and satelliting of powder feedstock, in which a binary material mixture is prepared. For both techniques, material handling, flowability and particle size distribution of the mixture are observed experimentally. Finally, for the first time initial experimental results with LPBF processing of a Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) composed of a magnesium (matrix) and silicon carbide (reinforcement) mixture are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	506-511
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.137
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	52nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS 2019 - Ljubljana, Slovenia Duration: 12 Jun 2019 → 14 Jun 2019 Conference number: 52

Keywords

Functionally graded material (FGM)
Metal matrix composite (MMC)
Multi-materials
Powder feedstock
Satelliting
Sselective laser melting

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Laser powder bed fusion of a Magnesium-SiC metal matrix composite

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