Densification Kinetics of Steel Powders during Direct Laser Sintering

  • Simchi, Abdolreza (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology) ;
  • Petzoldt, Frank (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (IFAM))
  • 발행 : 2006.09.24

초록

It is known that powder characteristics including particle size and distribution, particle shape, and chemical composition are important parameters which influence direct laser sintering of metal powders. In this paper, we introduce a first order kinetics model for densification of steel powders during laser sintering. A densification coefficient (K) is defined which express the potential of different powders to be laser-sintered to a high density dependent on their particle characteristics.

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