A novel method for production of spherical Ti-6Al-4V powder for additive manufacturing

Powder Technology

Volumn 301, Issue , 2016, Pages 331-335

  Sun, Pei ^a   Fang, Z Zak ^a   Xia, Yang ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Zhou, Chengshang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Powder metallurgy; Spherical powder; Titanium

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; ALUMINUM; GRANULATION; INJECTION MOLDING; MANUFACTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POWDER METALLURGY; POWDERS; SINTERING; SPHERES; TITANIUM;

AEROSPACE MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS; CONTROLLED PARTICLE SIZES; DEOXYGENATIONS; LOW OXYGEN CONTENTS; NEAR NET SHAPE MANUFACTURING; POWDER INJECTION MOLDING; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SPHERICAL POWDERS;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

OXYGEN; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEOXYGENATION; GRANULATION; MELTING POINT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POWDER; SINTERING; SPACE;

EID: 84974683322     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2016.06.022     Document Type: Article

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