Laser sintering of blended Al-Si powders

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-119

  Olakanmi, Eyitayo Olatunde ^a   Dalgarno, Kenneth W ^b   Cochrane, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Alloys; Aluminium alloy; Hypoeutectic Al Si powders; Particle size measurement; Selective laser sintering; Sintering

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; BED DENSITY; CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; HYPOEUTECTIC AL-SI; KEY FACTORS; LASER ENERGIES; LASER SINTERING; PARTICLE PACKINGS; PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENT; PEAK DENSITY; POWDER BLENDS; POWDER PARTICLES; POWDER PROPERTIES; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; PURE ALUMINIUM; RAW POWDERS; SATURATION LEVELS; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; SINTERABILITY; SINTERED DENSITY; SINTERED PARTS; TAP DENSITY;

ALLOYING; ALLOYING ELEMENTS; ALLOYS; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; BLENDING; LASER HEATING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POWDERS; SILICON; SINTERING;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84858027937     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552541211212096     Document Type: Article

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