Additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V alloy components for spacecraft applications

RAST 2013 - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5-11

  Rawal, Suraj ^a   Brantley, James ^a   Karabudak, Nafiz ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

electron beam melting; mechanical properties; metal additive manufacturing; spacecraft components; titanium alloy brackets

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS; COST AND BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS; METAL ADDITIVES; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST METHODS; SPACECRAFT APPLICATION; SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON BEAM MELTING; FASTENERS; MANUFACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SPACECRAFT;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84883874575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAST.2013.6581260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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