Review on powder-based electron beam additive manufacturing Technology

Manufacturing Review

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gong, Xibing ^a   Anderson, Ted ^b   Chou, Kevin ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam additive manufacturing (ebam); Geometric attributes; Mechanical properties; Metallic powder; Microstructures; Process metrology; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; GEOMETRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; APPLICATION RANGE; ELECTRONIC DATA; GENERAL ASPECTS; GEOMETRIC ATTRIBUTES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; METALLIC POWDER; PROCESS MODELING;

3D PRINTERS;

EID: 85028390058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22654224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/mfreview/2014001     Document Type: Review

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