Abstract
In recent years, Electron Beam Melting (EBM) has matured as a technology for additive manufacturing of dense metal parts. The parts are built by additive consolidation of thin layers of metal powder using an electron beam. With EBM, it is possible to create parts with geometries too complex to be fabricated by other methods, e.g. fine network structures and internal cavities. The process is run in vacuum, which makes it well suited for materials with a high affinity to oxygen, i.e. . titanium compounds. We present material data from a recently conducted study of how melt strategy affects EBM process for gamma titanium aluminide, Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb.The investigation includes microstructural characterization, grain size measurement and tensile testing.
