Ductile coatings on additive manufactured components
AssigneeNational Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
InventorsStephen D. Racca, Daniel Paul Gillund
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Abstract
A method of forming a coated component using an additive manufacturing system including building a body portion of the component on a build plate. An outer surface of the body portion can include an indentation resulting from the additive manufacturing system. The method further includes performing at least one post-build process on the body portion. The method yet further includes forming a coating layer on an outer surface of the processed body portion. The coating layer may surround a portion of the body component and may impregnate the indentation. A thickness of the coating layer may be a function of at least one of surface roughness, size of the indentation, or a diameter of particles used to build the additive manufactured bracket.
Claims13
A method of forming a coated component using an additive manufacturing system, the method comprising:
- building a body portion of the component on a build plate, wherein an outer surface of the body portion includes an indentation resulting from the additive manufacturing system;
- performing a post-build process on the body portion;
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- subsequent to performing the post-build process on the body portion, forming a coating layer on an outer surface of the body portion, wherein the coating layer surrounds a portion of the body portion and impregnates the indentation, wherein impregnating the indentation fills the indentation with the coating layer, wherein a thickness of the coating layer is selected based on at least one of a surface roughness value, size of the indentation, or a diameter of particles used to build the body portion, and wherein forming the coating layer comprises at least one of sputtering, evaporation, electroless plating, electroplating, or chemical displacement reaction.
A method of forming a coated component using an additive manufacturing system, the method comprising:
- building an additive manufactured bracket on a build plate, wherein an outer surface of the additive manufactured bracket includes an indentation resulting from additively manufacturing the bracket;
- performing a post-build process on the additive manufactured bracket;
- and
- subsequent to performing the post-build process on the additive manufactured bracket, forming a coating layer on an outer surface of the additive manufactured bracket, wherein the coating layer surrounds a portion of the additive manufactured bracket and impregnates the indentation, wherein impregnating the indentation fills the indentation with the coating layer, wherein a thickness of the coating layer is selected based on at least one of a surface roughness value, size of the indentation, or a diameter of particles used to build the additive manufactured bracket, and wherein forming the coating layer comprises at least one of sputtering, evaporation, electroless plating, electroplating, or chemical displacement reaction.
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