Improving 3D printed metal component performance through uniform surface enhancement, and chemical removal of supports and trapped powders

Applicability

• Can be used on most alloys of interest including nickel, titanium, stainless steel, and copper alloys
• Aluminum alloys in development
• When surface roughness reductions are required on complex geometry
• Chemical removal of supports inaccessible by other methods
• Chemical removal of trapped powders inaccessible by other methods
• Uniformly thinning walls on complex geometry that are otherwise inaccessible by other methods

Features

• Non-line-of-sight:  Can access all surfaces of complex geometry with fine and hidden features
  
• Low and high cycle fatigue improvement
• Remove supports on complex geometry
• Improving heat transfer by uniformly thinning walls
• Improving gas and fluid flow by modifying microfluidic channels and reentrant geometry by removing trapped powders and improving surface finish
• Improving safety by removing trapped metal alloy powders that create health hazards from difficult to reach geometry