Defect Free Additive Manufacturing of Aerospace Superalloy Parts – Quality and Process Monitoring

Purpose and goal:

An important scope is to bring an international co-operation structure in place fwith key competencies for the benefit of Swedish aerospace industry, being a core strategic user of AM, and to support the wider international positioning of AM with priority solutions for advanced aerospace solutions. This project addresses novel process monitoring for AM with aim to realize so called first part right capacity. The scope is as well to initiative co-development in Germany.

Expected results and effects:

This international co-operation project will mean an initiative to create an extensive co-development in Germany through partnering with BAM and Nikon SLM Solution. The project work itself is to set the initial scope for how process monitoring can be tailored and tuned to allow for first part right capacity in metal additive manufacturing of Ni-base superalloy parts. .

Approach and implementation:

We will take advantage of the latest developments in process monitoring in AM. This will be demonstrated at Chalmers for features/test parts and process optimization will be transferred to test scale at GKN Aerospace. Also, the ability to integrate heat treatment in post-AM HIP will be demonstrated by Quintus Technologies for the benefit of the overall quality control. Co-operation with BAM will be explored based on their position in thermography and NDT as well as with Nikon SLM Solutions.