Advanced technical and technological solutions for additive manufacturing by xBeam 3D metal printing
Dmytro Kovalchuk, Vitalii Melnyk, Ihor Melnyk, Borys Tugai
The electron beam additive manufacturing technology named xBeam 3D Metal Printing was presented at EBT-2016 Conference in Varna in summer of 2016. It was announced an expectation that this new technology can solve the most critical problems of numerous existing metal additive manufacturing processes and systems, including conflicts between accuracy and productivity, high quality and production cost, availability and price of raw materials and equipment, numerous afterprocessing operations as well.
Authors will present the technical and technological progress in development of the xBeam 3D Metal Printing achieved on the base of the pilot xBeam 3D Metal Printer in near production environment since that time. Results of numerous experiments with the most important materials for metal additive manufacturing like titanium alloys which have proved possibility to produce defect-free material with good metal structure and high mechanical properties will be demonstrated. Numerous exclusive technological opportunities provided by xBeam 3D Metal Printing will be presented.
Economic efficiency of the xBeam 3D Metal Printing will be also analyzed on the base of testing manufacture of real industrial parts from titanium alloys.
