A review on additive manufacturing of refractory tungsten and tungsten alloys

Alberico Talignani; Raiyan Seede; Austin Whitt; Shiqi Zheng; Jianchao Ye; Ibrahim Karaman; Michael M. Kirka; Yutai Katoh; Y. Morris Wang

doi:10.1016/j.addma.2022.103009

A review on additive manufacturing of refractory tungsten and tungsten alloys

Alberico Talignani, Raiyan Seede, Austin Whitt, Shiqi Zheng, Jianchao Ye, Ibrahim Karaman, Michael M. Kirka, Yutai Katoh, Y. Morris Wang

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We review the progress of additive manufacturing effort on refractory metal tungsten and tungsten alloys. These materials are excellent candidates for a variety of high temperature applications but extremely challenging to fabricate via additive manufacturing due to a series of existing issues during the manufacturing. We outline these issues and discuss the current understanding and progress to tackle them. Laser powder-bed-fusion, laser directed-energy-deposition, and electron beam powder-bed-fusion are three common techniques that have been applied to additively manufacture pure tungsten. This overview discusses current observations and understanding on the issues associated with each of these techniques. We identify future research opportunities in additive manufacturing of refractory metals.

Original language	English
Article number	103009
Journal	Additive Manufacturing
Volume	58
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103009
State	Published - Oct 2022

Funding

This research was sponsored by the US Department of Energy , Office of Fusion Energy Sciences and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under contract DE-AC05–00OR22725 with UT-Battelle LLC. The work at LLNL was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC52–07NA27344 .

Keywords

Additive manufacturing
Electron beam powder-bed-fusion
Laser directed-energy-deposition
Laser powder-bed-fusion
Tungsten
Tungsten alloys

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