Advancement in additive manufacturing & numerical modelling considerations of direct energy deposition process

Zeng, Quanren and Xu, Zhenhai and Tian, Yankang and Qin, Yi; Goy, Yee Mey and Case, Keith, eds. (2016) Advancement in additive manufacturing & numerical modelling considerations of direct energy deposition process. In: Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Manufacturing Research. ICMR . IOS Press, GBR, pp. 104-109. ISBN 978-1-61499-668-2 (https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-104)

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Abstract

The development speed and application range of the additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), laser metal deposition (LMD) or laser-engineering net shaping (LENS), are ever-increasing in modern advanced manufacturing field for rapid manufacturing, tooling repair or surface enhancement of the critical metal components. LMD is based on a kind of directed energy deposition (DED) technology which ejects a strand of metal powders into a moving molten pool caused by energy-intensive laser to finally generate the solid tracks on the workpiece surface. Accurate numerical modelling of LMD process is considered to be a big challenge due to the involvement of multiple phase changes and accompanied mass and heat flows. This paper overviewed the existing advancement of additive manufacturing, especially its sub-category relating to the DED. LMD process is analyzed in detail and subsequently broken down to facilitate the simulation of each physical stage involved in the whole process, including powder transportation and dynamics, micro-mechanical modelling, formation of deposited track and residual stress on the substrate. The proposed modelling considerations and a specific CFD model of powder feeding will assist in accurately simulating the DED process; it is particularly useful in the field of aerospace manufacturing which normally has demanding requirement on its products.

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Zeng, Quanren ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9955-9669, Xu, Zhenhai ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-6667, Tian, Yankang ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0274-0902 and Qin, Yi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-4855; Goy, Yee Mey and Case, Keith
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