...Fatih Yılmaz; Ercan Gürses; Melin Şahin Purpose This study aims to evaluate and assess the elastoplastic properties of Ti-6Al-4V alloy manufactured by Arcam Q20 Plus electron beam melting (EBM) machine by a tensile test campaign and micro computerized tomography (microCT) imaging. Design...

...Christopher Arnold; Christoph Pobel; Fuad Osmanlic; Carolin Körner Purpose The purpose of this study is the introduction and validation of a new technique for process monitoring during electron beam melting (EBM). Design/methodology/approach In this study, a backscatter electron detector...

...Srinivasan Raghavan; Mui Ling Sharon Nai; Pan Wang; Wai Jack Sin; Tao Li; Jun Wei Purpose The paper presents a wide range of post processing heat treatment cycles performed to Electron Beam Melted (EBM) Ti6Al4V alloy and establishes correlations of heat treat process to microstructure...

...Ashfaq Mohammad; Abdurahman Mushabab Al-Ahmari; Abdullah AlFaify; Muneer Khan Mohammed Purpose Electron beam melting (EBM) is one of the potential additive manufacturing technologies to fabricate aero-engine components from gamma titanium aluminide (γ-TiAl) alloys. When a new material system has...

.../methodology/approach For this study, samples of wall thickness varying between 4.0 and 0.25 mm were built in 304L on the selective laser melting (SLM) platform and Ti-6Al-4V on the electron beam melting (EBM) platform. Samples were then mechanically tested, and fractography was performed for analysis...

...Rebecca Klingvall Ek; Lars-Erik Rännar; Mikael Bäckstöm; Peter Carlsson Purpose The surface roughness of products manufactured using the additive manufacturing (AM) technology of electron beam melting (EBM) has a special characteristic. Different product applications can demand rougher or finer...

...Dana H. Abdeen; Bruce R. Palmer Purpose This paper aims to study the effect of processing parameters of an electron beam melting (EBM) machine on the surface roughness, critical pitting temperature and density of Ti-6Al-4V parts produced from the EBM machine. Design/methodology/approach...

...Dana H. Abdeen; Bruce R. Palmer Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the corrosion behavior of Ti-6Al-4V parts produced with electron beam melting (EBM) machine and compare it with wrought Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Design/methodology/approach Potentiodynamic and potentiostatic tests were applied on EBM...

... are fabricated using electron beam melting technology. Findings – This paper examined and analyzed the relative motion of PIP designs using FEA by applying varying loads to check the stability and range of motion of the PIP implant. The ANSYS summary results were analyzed depending on the minimal results...

...Yujie Quan; Philipp Drescher; Faming Zhang; Eberhard Burkel; Hermann Seitz Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fabricate cellular Ti6Al4V with carbon nanotube (CNT)-like structures by selective electron beam melting and study the resultant mechanical properties based on each respective...

...Marie Cronskär; Mikael Bäckström; Lars‐Erik Rännar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the use of the additive manufacturing (AM) method, electron beam melting (EBM), for manufacturing of customized hip stems. The aim is to investigate EBM's feasibility and commercial potential...

...A. Safdar; H.Z. He; Liu‐Ying Wei; A. Snis; Luis E. Chavez de Paz Purpose Ti‐6Al‐4V is one of the most attractive materials being used in aerospace, automotive and medical implant industries. Electron beam melting (EBM) is one of the direct digital manufacturing methods to produce complex...

... infrared images (IR) which were taken during the generation of Ti‐6Al‐4V parts in a selective electron beam melting system (SEBM) with metallographic images taken from destructive material investigation. Findings A good match is found between the IR images and the material flaws detected...

...Wahyudin P. Syam; Huda A. Al‐Shehri; A.M. Al‐Ahmari; Khalid A. Al‐Wazzan; M.A. Mannan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential application of electron beam melting, as a layered manufacturing process, to fabricate dental coping of metal‐ceramic crown restoration using...