A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing
Abstract
We report a novel method was developed to produce spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for advanced near-net-shape manufacturing processes including additive manufacturing and powder injection molding. The new process synergistically integrates a few common low-cost processing techniques including granulation, sintering, and de-oxygenation to produce spherical Ti alloy powders without relying on costly melting and atomizing techniques. This new granulation-sintering-deoxygenation (GSD) process can use low-cost source powders such as scrap Ti as the raw material. The spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder produced using this process has controlled particle size distribution and low oxygen content (< 0.15%), which meet the Aerospace Material Specification (AMS-4998) for spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder.
- Authors:
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- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1534259
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1430768
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000420
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Powder Technology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 301; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0032-5910
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; titanium; spherical powder; additive manufacturing; powder metallurgy
Citation Formats
Sun, Pei, Fang, Z. Zak, Xia, Yang, Zhang, Ying, and Zhou, Chengshang. A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.022.
Sun, Pei, Fang, Z. Zak, Xia, Yang, Zhang, Ying, & Zhou, Chengshang. A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.022
Sun, Pei, Fang, Z. Zak, Xia, Yang, Zhang, Ying, and Zhou, Chengshang. Thu .
"A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.022. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1534259.
@article{osti_1534259,
title = {A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing},
author = {Sun, Pei and Fang, Z. Zak and Xia, Yang and Zhang, Ying and Zhou, Chengshang},
abstractNote = {We report a novel method was developed to produce spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for advanced near-net-shape manufacturing processes including additive manufacturing and powder injection molding. The new process synergistically integrates a few common low-cost processing techniques including granulation, sintering, and de-oxygenation to produce spherical Ti alloy powders without relying on costly melting and atomizing techniques. This new granulation-sintering-deoxygenation (GSD) process can use low-cost source powders such as scrap Ti as the raw material. The spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder produced using this process has controlled particle size distribution and low oxygen content (< 0.15%), which meet the Aerospace Material Specification (AMS-4998) for spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder.},
doi = {10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.022},
journal = {Powder Technology},
number = C,
volume = 301,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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