Aerospace

Rapid Manufacturing offers huge potential cost savings for the aerospace industry and enables designers to create completely new and innovative systems, applications and vehicles.

Rapid Manufacturing is particularly useful in the aerospace industry due to its

• Low production volumes
• Constant design iterations
• Geometric design complexity
• Testing of new materials

The Arcam EBM process is capable of producing fully functional components in widely accepted production grade materials such as Ti6Al4V. Material properties are comparable to bar stock material with corresponding performance for

• Static strength
• Fatigue strength
• Fracture toughness
• Crack propagation rate
• Notch sensitivity
• Corrosion resistance
• Stress corrosion resistance

The Arcam EBM process is fast. Manufacturing of the parts is economically feasible for a range of applications. It also enables complete parts to be built, instead of as an assembly. Complex geometries can be created without difficulty.

Impeller

Landing gear