Papers
Metal powder characterisation for Additive Manufacturing: Beyond state-of-the-art standard - 2021
Metal Additive Manufacturing | Autumn 2021, Vol. 7 No. 3
The control of powder feedstock characteristics is essential in metal Additive Manufacturing in order to guarantee the quality of built parts and reduce production costs. However, powder behaviour is influenced by a large number of particle properties, along with environmental conditions which can modify these properties.
In the following article, Granutools’ Dr Aurélien Neveu reviews some of the current standards applicable to powder feedstock characterisation, and highlights how to make such procedures more robust, repeatable and meaningful for end-users with regards to real AM powders and process conditions...