SLPC Poster Session

[SLPCp-05] Fabrication of Ti-6Al-4V using selective laser melting with blue diode laser

*Koki Maeda¹, Ryoga Ueda¹, Keisuke Takenaka², Yuji Sato², Minoru Yoshida¹, Hitoshi Nakano¹, Masahiro Tsukamoto² (1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, 2. Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University)

Blue diode lasers have high optical absorption for many metallic materials and higher photoelectric conversion efficiency than fiber lasers. We have developed a 200 W high-brightness blue diode laser and have developed a selective laser melting method using this laser. In this study, we attempted to shape Ti-6Al-4V, which is known as a difficult-to-machine material, using the SLM method equipped with a blue diode laser.