A thin-skin support member is provided. The thin-skin support member may include a semi-circular edge and a flat edge that define a hollow cavity. A cylindrical cavity may be adjacent the hollow cavity and at least partially defined by the semi-circular edge. The cylindrical cavity may be configured to retain a strut assembly. A mounting interface may be coupled to the semi-circular edge and the flat edge. A torsion interface may be disposed adjacent the cylindrical cavity and configured to receive a torsion link. The thin-skin support member may be made using additive manufacturing and thus may have a grain structure grown in the direction of material being added.

In various embodiments, wire composed at least partially of arc-melted refractory metal material is utilized to fabricate three-dimensional parts by additive manufacturing.

The present disclosure is directed at alloys and method for layer-by-layer deposition of metallic alloys on a substrate to produce a metallic part. Applications for the metallic parts include pumps, pump parts, valves, molds, bearings, cutting tools, filters or screens.

A method of additive manufacture is disclosed. The method may include restricting, by an enclosure, an exchange of gaseous matter between an interior of the enclosure and an exterior of the enclosure. The method may further include running multiple machines within the enclosure. Each of the machines may execute its own process of additive manufacture. While the machines are running, a gas management system may maintain gaseous oxygen within the enclosure at or below a limiting oxygen concentration for the interior.

A method of additive manufacture is disclosed. The method may include creating, by a 3D printer contained within an enclosure, a part having a weight greater than or equal to 2,000 kilograms. A gas management system may maintain gaseous oxygen within the enclosure atmospheric level. In some embodiments, a wheeled vehicle may transport the part from inside the enclosure, through an airlock, as the airlock operates to buffer between a gaseous environment within the enclosure and a gaseous environment outside the enclosure, and to a location exterior to both the enclosure and the airlock.

A component includes an additively manufactured component with an internal passage and an additively manufactured elongated member within the internal passage. A method of additively manufacturing a component including additively manufacturing a component with an internal passage; and additively manufacturing an elongated member within the internal passage concurrent with additively manufacturing the component.

Gas is introduced into molten metal during an additive metal fabrication process and/or during a metal fusion process. The gas may comprise a process gas that flows through a tubular feed wire. The amount of process gas introduced can be controlled to vary the composition and/or material properties of metal deposits formed from a molten metal. Material properties such as yield strength, hardness, and fracture toughness can be increased or decreased in specific regions to provide material property gradients that closely correspond to expected requirements of components fabricated utilizing additive and/or fusion processes.

A method of manufacturing an airfoil includes creating a plurality of cavities separated by a plurality of internal ribs in an airfoil forging. At least one hole is drilled in at least one of the plurality of internal ribs with a waterjet drilling tool. At least one hole extends perpendicularly to a wall of the rib.

Integrated circuits (ICs) and method for forming IC devices are presented. In one embodiment, a method of forming a device with an integrated magnetic component using 3-dimensional (3-D) printing is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate with a base dielectric layer, the base dielectric layer serves as a base for the integrated magnetic component. A first metal layer is formed on the substrate by spray coating metal powder over the substrate and performing selective laser melting on the metal powder. A magnetic core is formed on the substrate by spray coating magnet powder over the substrate and performing selective laser sintering on the magnet powder. A second metal layer is formed on the substrate by spray coating metal powder over the substrate and performing selective laser melting on the metal powder. A patterned dielectric layer separates the first and second metal layers and the magnetic core.

The invention relates to a 3D-metal-printing method for producing a spatial metal product substantially consisting of a metal powder or metal filaments, the powder or the filaments being structured layer-by-layer by application of starting material layers to a respectively previously produced layer and selective local heating of predefined points of the layer above a sintering or melting temperature of the powder and fusion of the molten points with the underlying layer and optional tempering of the points, in which the respectively newly applied starting material layer and optionally at least one underlying layer are preheated by planar or migratory irradiation of near-IR radiation, particularly with a maximum radiation density in the wavelength range of between 0.8 and 1.5 m, to a temperature with a predetermined difference to the melting temperature and/or points predefined in connection with the local heating are subjected to an aftertreatment for thermal voltage compensation.