About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Advances in Titanium Technology
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Presentation Title |
Ti Alloy Wire Fabrication from Waste and Out-of-Specification Particulates |
Author(s) |
Robert Wilson, Geoffrey Robert de Looze, Kun Vanna Yang, Shiqin Yan, David Ritchie, Ling Chen, Andrew Yob, Dayalan Gunasegaram |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Robert Wilson |
Abstract Scope |
Titanium is used in high technology sectors such as aerospace and defence. The manufacture of components via subtractive manufacturing (SM), additive manufacturing (AM) and during powder manufacture, has waste generation levels 10% to 81%. This particulate waste has relatively low value and is typically remelted and returned to the beginning of the titanium supply chain. Titanium wire is an important feedstock for large format wire-AM and in the production of powder for use in powder-based AM. The re-purposing these waste particulates and directly converting them into wire is a way to add value and lower the cost of wire fabrication. CSIRO has invented a process, “TiWi,” to continuously convert low-cost titanium particulates from novel and recycled sources to titanium wire. The following will describe the continuous fabrication of 3.2mm diameter Ti-64 wire from alloy particulates, the feed particulates and their reconditioning for wire making, and the resultant alloy wire |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Titanium, Additive Manufacturing, Powder Materials |