A method for prefabricating a poor fusion defect by controlling a LMD process, including: obtaining a model, with a shaping zone and a defect prefabricated zone that has a preset defect; and performing a layerwise slicing process on the model. For each deposition layer of the defect prefabricated zone, the preset defect has a maximum dimension a0 in a perpendicular direction; for the shaping zone, performing a shaping process under predetermined shaping process parameters of the LMD process; and for the defect prefabricated zone, controlling shaping process parameters as follows: when a0<D, with respect to the shaping zone, changing a scan pitch between shaping paths and a powder feed rate in the deposition layer, thereby prefabricating the poor fusion defect; and when a0≥D, with respect to the shaping zone.

A method for preparing prefabricated gas pore defects includes: defining a defect area, defining a volume percentage of the gas pore defects in the defect area, adjusting the proportion of satellite powder, the proportion of hollow powder and the process parameters of defect preparation according to the volume percentage of the gas pore defects, based on the technique of laser melting deposition, printing the defect area layer by layer by using the defect preparation powder and the process parameters of defect preparation, wherein the particle size of the defect preparation powder is between 45 μm and 106 μm, the proportion of satellite powder is 55-65% and the proportion of hollow powder is 2.9-3.1%, the process parameters of defect preparation comprises: laser power of 600W-1000W, scanning rate of 400 mm/min-800 mm/min, powder feeding rate of 12 g/min-20 g/min, spot diameter of 1 mm-2 mm, scanning spacing of 0.5 mm-1 mm and layer thickness of 0.15 mm-0.2 mm.

A method for preparing prefabricated gas pore defects includes: defining a defect area, defining a volume percentage of the gas pore defects in the defect area, adjusting the proportion of satellite powder, the proportion of hollow powder and the process parameters of defect preparation according to the volume percentage of the gas pore defects, based on the technique of laser melting deposition, printing the defect area layer by layer by using the defect preparation powder and the process parameters of defect preparation, wherein the particle size of the defect preparation powder is between 45 μm and 106 μm, the proportion of satellite powder is 55-65% and the proportion of hollow powder is 2.9-3.1%, the process parameters of defect preparation comprises: laser power of 600W-1000W, scanning rate of 400 mm/min-800 mm/min, powder feeding rate of 12 g/min-20 g/min, spot diameter of 1 mm-2 mm, scanning spacing of 0.5 mm-1 mm and layer thickness of 0.15 mm-0.2 mm.

A manufacturing device for additive manufacturing of component parts from a powder material includes a beam producing device, a scanner device configured to displace an energy beam to a plurality of irradiation positions, a deflection device configured to displace the energy beam at an irradiation position to a plurality of beam positions, and a control device configured to control the deflection device and to produce a specific intensity profile in the beam region. The control device does this by dividing and displacing the energy beam to at least two beam positions separated by a distance that is variably settable and/or by displacing the energy beam and by specifying at least one operating parameter of the deflection, such as a residence time at a beam position, a beam position density distribution, a frequency distribution, and an intensity influencing parameter of the energy beam deflected to the beam positions.

A manufacturing device for additive manufacturing of a component part from a powder material includes a beam generating device configured to generate an energy beam, a scanner device configured to displace the energy beam to a plurality of irradiation positions in order to produce the component part from the powder material arranged in the work region using the energy beam, a deflection device configured to displace the energy beam to a plurality of beam positions at an irradiation position of the plurality of irradiation positions within a beam region, and a control device operatively connected to the deflection device and configured to control the deflection device and to change a beam profile of the beam region during production of a component part by changing a control of the deflection device.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a method is described. The example method determining parameters for a pulsed laser to generate a melt pool pattern in a three-dimensional (3D) object to produce different phases in the 3D object that vary according to the melt pool pattern. The example method also includes controlling the pulsed laser to form the 3D object in an additive manufacturing process based on the determined parameters and the melt pool pattern.

Provided are a laminate shaped article made of a maraging steel and having excellent toughness, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal powder for laminate shaping. The laminate shaped article is made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti. When sis is performed on concentration distribution of Ti in a cross section parallel to a lamination direction of the above laminate shaped article, a length of a linear Ti-rich portion having a Ti concentration B of (1.5×A) or more with respect to an average Ti concentration A in the cross section is 15 μm or less. In addition, the method for manufacturing the laminate shaped article uses a metal powder made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti, and a heat source output is set to 50-330 W and a scanning speed is set to 480-3000 mm/sec during the laminate shaping.

Provided are a laminate shaped article made of a maraging steel and having excellent toughness, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal powder for laminate shaping. The laminate shaped article is made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti. When sis is performed on concentration distribution of Ti in a cross section parallel to a lamination direction of the above laminate shaped article, a length of a linear Ti-rich portion having a Ti concentration B of (1.5×A) or more with respect to an average Ti concentration A in the cross section is 15 μm or less. In addition, the method for manufacturing the laminate shaped article uses a metal powder made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti, and a heat source output is set to 50-330 W and a scanning speed is set to 480-3000 mm/sec during the laminate shaping.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an apparatus for identifying a smoke event in an electron beam melting installation comprising: a current meter measuring a grounding current; and a processor programmed to identify a smoke event by evaluating the grounding current.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an apparatus for identifying a smoke event in an electron beam melting installation comprising: a current meter measuring a grounding current; and a processor programmed to identify a smoke event by evaluating the grounding current.