Additive manufacturing a part using struts

Abstract

The disclosure presents a combination of additive manufacturing processes that could be used to produce different portions or features of a hybrid structure, such that a first additive manufacturing process could be used to form a complex seed part or first section of the hybrid component, and a different additive manufacturing component could be used to form a second section of the hybrid component. When two components are manufactures, a mandrel could be assembled into the first component to provide rigidity and resistance to deformation of the first component, even during and after formation of the second component on the interface surface of the first component using a second additive manufacturing process. Finally, struts could be formed directly on a base plate and before formation of the component so that the base plate temperature could increase to be in equilibrium with the temperature of the newly deposited material.

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