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Additive manufacturing: characterising materials
Metallic materials
To properly control the additive manufacturing process, a mechanical, physical and chemical characterisation of the metallic materials obtained is required.
For metallic products obtained after additive manufacturing, you want to:
- Identify reliable analysis and characterisation methods,
- Analyse the structure and microstructure of your metallic materials and perform a characterisation in terms of grain size, inclusion cleanliness, presence of phases, porosity, etc,
- Assess the mechanical behaviour of your products,
- Understand the degradation or aging phenomena,
- Implement the appropriate heat treatment or the optimum surface treatment,
A team of specialists with specific resources to characterise metallic materials produced by additive manufacturing
- Characterisation of powders (grain size, rheology, etc.)
- Macroscopic, microscopic and fractographic examinations using instruments such as binocular magnifiers, optical microscopes (1,000 X magnification), SEMs (Scanning Electron Microscopes) equipped with microanalysis probes
- Determination of density
- Microhardness measurements, hardness profiles (Vickers, Brinell, etc.), determination of the depth decarburisation
- Standard chemical analyses and specific methods
- Laboratory simulation: accelerated aging (corrosion, wear / friction, fatigue, creep)
A laboratory and experts dedicated to surface treatments.
A team of specialists and specific resources to study the mechanical behaviour of materials produced by additive manufacturing :
- Tensile testing at room and high temperatures
- High cycle fatigue testing at room and high temperatures
- Low cycle fatigue testing at room and high temperatures
- Cracking testing at room and high temperatures
- Creep elongation and creep failure testing
- Recognised expertise in material characterisation and metal additive manufacturing
- Access to the best technologies, skills and resources available
- Accredited tests (see details on our page Cofrac Essai)
- A responsive and highly competitive service tailored to your needs with specialised laboratories at your disposal
- Access to the wide range of skills of Cetim’s teams
- Expertise in all transformation processes applicable to light alloys and hard metals (machining and bar turning, metal additive manufacturing, welding, rolling, casting, forging, etc.)
- An independent laboratory deeply involved in various industrial sectors such as aerospace, automotive, energy, medical equipments and devices, etc.
Metallographic examinations of metallic materials
Assess and characterise the structures of a metallic materialExpertise in surface treatment and surface coating
Supporting you in the optimisation of your processSurface and heat treatment of metals
Select, control and characterise heat and thermochemical treatment processesMetal powder characterization
Characterizing physico-chemical or mechanical properties of metallic powders and sintered bearing materialsChemical analysis and composition of metallic materials
Characterise the physical-chemical properties of a metallic materialAdditive Manufacturing: supporting you throughout the value chain
The approach proposed by Cetim is to identify the parameters for the success of your Additive Manufacturing based innovation.
Better characterize the powders to better use them
( Chpolansky)Materials Characterization
Les matériaux sont un enjeu primordial dans la conception de vos produits:
Lesquels choisir, selon quels critères, métalliques, composites, élastomères?
Comment les assembler ? Quels procédés de fabrication? Quels traitements leur appliquer ?
Autant de questions auxquelles les experts du Cetim vous apportent des réponses pratiques et argumentées, en les complétant si vous le souhaitez de prestations d'aide à la conception pouvant vous faire gagner un temps précieux dans la mise sur le marché de vos produits.
