Session: 03-01 Metals: Post Processing Topics

Paper Number: 93893

93893 - Developments in Hot Isostatic Pressing and High Pressure Heat Treatment for Additive Manufacturing 

Stabilizing and improving product quality, manufacturing lead time, cost, and overall energy efficiency, calls for continuous reviewing of current state of the art technologies in each field of interest.  

For the past half a century, high-end applications, such as mechanically and thermally loaded components in e.g., aerospace, nuclear, racing, subsea applications, medical implants, etc., have employed hot isostatic pressing, HIP, to ensure highest possible component quality, removing reliability limiting pores which can impact mechanical properties. These defect as often found in e.g., castings and powder-based products. 

In the past decades, both AM and HIP have continuously been developed to become new, and improved tools in the engineer’s toolbox in designing and manufacturing powder based, high performance components in the most efficient way.  

Recently, new innovative ways of combining state of the art of both these processes have been gaining interest, exploring ways to further optimize AM production and AM products from both a quality, cost, and manufacturing lead time perspective. Speed printing followed by high pressure heat treatment, are concepts that are being explored to open further possibilities in continuous improvements.  

This presentation will show the latest on current state of the art high pressure heat treatment, HPHT(TM) , HIP equipment and reference recent work showing how this functionality is, and can be used as an intrinsic part of the AM manufacturing process, ensuring HIP quality and beyond for AM components at no additional cost.     

Presenting Author: Anders Magnusson Quintus Technologies AB

Presenting Author Biography: MSc in Engineering materials from Chalmers University of Technology. Joined Quintus Technologies in 2021 working as Business Development Manager, following a career of +20 years in R&D, production, supply chain and technical support of high temperature materials and heating systems for industrial and laboratory furnaces.

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