Renishaw has launched 5 new supplies information to be used on its RenAM 500 metallic additive manufacturing machines.
Customers of the RenAM 500 collection of machines will now be capable of course of pure copper, H13 instrument metal, Hastelloy X alloy, super-duplex stainless-steel and AlSi7Mg aluminium alloy, opening up a spread of recent functions.
These functions embody client electronics and warmth exchanger parts due to the extraordinarily excessive thermal and electrical conductivity of pure copper; aerospace and automotive elements due to Aluminium AlSi7Mg’s light-weight and excessive energy properties; and elements that require glorious thermal fatigue properties and excessive heat-resistance due to the introduction of H13 instrument metal. Hastelloy X alloy and super-duplex stainless-steel, in the meantime, share glorious corrosion resistant and high-strength traits which can be nicely suited to the oil and gasoline and chemical course of industries.
Renishaw is releasing these 5 materials information for its laser powder mattress fusion (LPBF) methods to ‘assist the ever-changing wants of its prospects.’ The corporate is claimed to have labored straight with prospects to develop course of parameters for the brand new alloys, with the fabric datasheets of every materials together with outcomes of Plastometrex’s proprietary PIP (Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry) testing for the primary time. By facilitating fast, direct testing on completely different sections of AM elements, the PIP technique is designed to offer a extra exact and environment friendly analysis of an element’s mechanical properties. It’s being utilized by Renishaw to enhance its current testing procedures after the businesses introduced a partnership earlier this 12 months.
Moreover, Renishaw has added new powder layer thicknesses to its present processable supplies, together with 90 μm titanium grade 23, 70 μm stainless-steel 316L and 120 μm Inconel 718 parameters that obtain distinctive materials construct charges.
“We’re happy to be including to our portfolio of obtainable supplies to assist revolutionary functions, and reply to the wants of our prospects,” mentioned Marc Gardon, EMEA Additive Manufacturing Purposes Supervisor at Renishaw. “As an example, we’ve got developed parameters for H13 instrument metal, Hastelloy X alloy and super-duplex stainless-steel to assist prospects in Spain and Portugal — SIMOLDES, ITP Aero and ADDIMEN — for functions within the tooling, aerospace and power industries.”
