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Influence on surface characteristics of electron beam melting process (EBM) by varying the process parameters

par Dolimont, Adrien;Michotte, Sébastien;Rivière-Lorphèvre, Edouard;Ducobu, François;Vives, Solange ;Godet, Stéphane ;Henkes, Tom;Filippi, Enrico
Référence AIP Conference Proceedings, 1896, 040010
Publication Publié, 2017-10

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The use of additive manufacturing processes keeps growing in aerospace and biomedical industry. Among the numerous existing technologies, the Electron Beam Melting process has advantages (good dimensional accuracy, fully dense parts) and disadvantages (powder handling, support structure, high surface roughness). Analyzes of the surface characteristics are interesting to get a better understanding of the EBM operations. But that kind of analyzes is not often found in the literature. The main goal of this study is to determine if it is possible to improve the surface roughness by modifying some parameters of the process (scan speed function, number of contours, order of contours, etc.) on samples with different thicknesses. The experimental work on the surface roughness leads to a statistical analysis of 586 measures of EBM simple geometry parts.