A Comparative Study of Metallic Additive Manufacturing Power Consumption
| dc.creator | Baumers, M. | |
| dc.creator | Tuck, C. | |
| dc.creator | Hague, R. | |
| dc.creator | Ashcroft, I. | |
| dc.creator | Wildman, R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-30T14:33:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-30T14:33:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Efficient resource utilisation is seen as one of the advantages of Additive Manufacturing (AM). This paper presents a comparative assessment of electricity consumption of two major metallic AM processes, selective laser melting and electron beam melting. The experiments performed for this study are based on the production of a common power monitoring geometry. Due to the technology’s parallel nature, the degree of build volume utilization will affect any power consumption metric. Therefore, this work explores energy consumption on the basis of whole builds - while compensating for discrepancies in packing efficiency. This provides insight not only into absolute levels of power consumption but also on comparative process efficiency. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2152/88257 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/15198 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Texas at Austin | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2010 International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium | en_US |
| dc.rights.restriction | Open | en_US |
| dc.subject | metallic Additive Manufacturing | en_US |
| dc.subject | selective laser melting | en_US |
| dc.subject | electron beam melting | en_US |
| dc.subject | electricity consumption | en_US |
| dc.subject | process efficiency | en_US |
| dc.title | A Comparative Study of Metallic Additive Manufacturing Power Consumption | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_US |