Additive manufacturing is growing faster and faster. This leads us to study the functionalization of the parts that are produced by these processes. Electron Beam melting (EBM) is one of these technologies. It is a po...
Additive manufacturing is growing faster and faster. This leads us to study the functionalization of the parts that are produced by these processes. Electron Beam melting (EBM) is one of these technologies. It is a powder based additive manufacturing (AM) method. With this process, it is possible to manufacture high-density metal parts with complex topology. One of the big problems with these technologies is the surface finish. To improve the quality of the surface, some finishing operations are needed. In this study, the focus is set on chemical polishing. The goal is to determine how the chemical etching impacts the dimensional accuracy and the surface roughness of EBM parts. To this end, an experimental campaign was carried out on the most widely used material in EBM, Ti6Al4V. Different exposure times were tested. The impact of these times on surface quality was evaluated. To help predicting the excess thickness to be provided, the dimensional impact of chemical polishing on EBM parts was estimated. 15 parts were measured before and after chemical machining. The improvement of surface quality was also evaluated after each treatment.
The demand of micro products has increased significantly in recent years. The traditional stand- Alone machine tools were optimized to market demands. These processes still remains a big issue in the repeatability, pr...
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The demand of micro products has increased significantly in recent years. The traditional stand- Alone machine tools were optimized to market demands. These processes still remains a big issue in the repeatability, predictability and the productivity of manufacturing. Today, the machine tools are combined to increase the productivity of manufacturing. These hybrid processes are decomposed in three domains: The assisted hybrid, the mixed hybrid and the sequential hybrid. The sequential hybrid is the combination of the minimum of two technologies in the same structure. The different processes must be mastered before the combination. The aims of this paper is to study the advantages and disadvantages of laser micro-machining and the micro-milling. The final goal is to couple these processes in the same structure. The sequential hybrid process is subtractive-subtractive it combines the laser μ-machining and theμ-milling. The samples are machined with the two processes to compare the dimensional tolerance and the geometrical tolerance of fundamental geometries.
Carbon-fiber reinforced composites (CFRP) are attractive materials for lightweight designs in applications needing good mechanical properties. Machining of such materials can be harder than metals due to their anisotr...
Carbon-fiber reinforced composites (CFRP) are attractive materials for lightweight designs in applications needing good mechanical properties. Machining of such materials can be harder than metals due to their anisotropic behavior. In addition, the combination of the fibers and resin mechanical properties must also include the fiber orientation. In the case of orthogonal cutting, the tool inclination, rake angle or cutting angle usually influence the cutting process but such a detailed investigation is currently lacking in a 2D configuration. To address this issue, a model has been developed with Abaqus Explicit including Hashin damage. This model has been validated with experimental results from the literature. The effects of the tool parameters (rake angle, clearance angle) on the tool cutting forces, CFRP chip morphology and surface damage are herewith studied. It is shown that 90° orientation for the CFRP increases the surface damage. The rake angle has a minimal effect on the cutting forces but modifies the chip formation times. The feed forces are increased with increasing rake angle.
Virtual manufacturing is a field of research which numerically simulate all the manufacturing processes seen by a mechanical part during its production (for example casting, forging, machining, heat treatment,). Its u...
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The final aim of finite elements modelling is to help in the choice of the cutting parameters and in the comprehension of the involved phenomena. Representing correctly the behaviour of the machined material is hard d...
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The goal of this paper is to share experience about the degradation assessment of railway track point machines. A real scale point machine test bench was used to perform several thousands of maneuvers. Recorded data c...
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The use of additive manufacturing processes keeps growing in aerospace and biomedical industry. Among the numerous existing technologies, the Electron Beam Melting process has advantages (good dimensional accuracy, fu...
The use of additive manufacturing processes keeps growing in aerospace and biomedical industry. Among the numerous existing technologies, the Electron Beam Melting process has advantages (good dimensional accuracy, fully dense parts) and disadvantages (powder handling, support structure, high surface roughness). Analyzes of the surface characteristics are interesting to get a better understanding of the EBM operations. But that kind of analyzes is not often found in the literature. The main goal of this study is to determine if it is possible to improve the surface roughness by modifying some parameters of the process (scan speed function, number of contours, order of contours, etc.) on samples with different thicknesses. The experimental work on the surface roughness leads to a statistical analysis of 586 measures of EBM simple geometry parts.
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