| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Printed Electronics and Additive Manufacturing: Advanced Functional Materials, Processing Concepts, and Emerging Applications
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| Presentation Title |
Radically-Accessible Approach to 3D Printing of Full-Density Aluminum Alloys |
| Author(s) |
Keng Hsu |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Keng Hsu |
| Abstract Scope |
performance components in industries such as aerospace and medicine. Unfortunately, accessibility of MAM has eluded small and medium sized American manufacturers: high equipment and running costs, high energy consumption, and necessity for costly auxiliary and post processes have prevented viable business cases to be developed for them to reach the potential of metal AM.
The Resonance Assisted Deposition (RAD) technique uses small mechanical oscillations and voxel compression to print metal 3-dimensional parts in solid-state at low temperatures. 3-dimensional objects formed this way have greater than 99.98% density as built, and requires no post-fabrication processing. This process is accomplished in ambient conditions within office environments. As compared with state-of-the-art melt-fusion AM technologies, the RAD technique as a MAM technology provides significant savings in equipment & facility capital, presents no safety and health risks, and has a workflow as simple as that of FFF or FDM. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Joining, Aluminum |