NASA has been involved in the development and maturation of metal additive manufacturing (AM) for space applications since the late 2000’s. Several efforts have focused on the understanding of AM processes through material characterization and testing, standards development, component fabrication, and infusion into development and flight applications. While many common aerospace alloys have been and continue to be a focus of ongoing development, the need for custom-alloy developments for high performance applications enabled by AM processes has been realized. The applications being targeted are liquid rocket engines with high heat fluxes, high pressure, and that utilize propellants such as hydrogen, which can degrade the alloy. NASA has recently focused on the development and advancement of novel alloy advancement using AM for use in these harsh environments, such as GRCop-42, GRCop-84, NASA HR-1, and JBK-75. These alloys have been evaluated using the laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and laser powder directed energy deposition (LP-DED) processes. The results from these processes have demonstrated that AM can enable rapid development of new alloy systems that can yield higher performances. These alloys have undergone the fundamental metallurgical evaluations, heat treatment study, and microstructure characterization and mechanical testing campaign. This, combined with direct application-specific component fabrication and hot-fire testing, enabled the increase of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL). This presentation will provide a background and overview of these AM-enabled novel alloys, AM processing development including metallurgical and mechanical property studies. It will also cover the latest advancement in the parallel component development and testing and future developments. The goal of these alloy development is to allow for technology infusion into NASA and commercial spaceflight missions as well as to establish and sustain the needed commercial AM supply chain.


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    Titel :

    Advancement of Novel Additively Manufactured Alloys for Space Applications


    Beteiligte:
    P. Gradl (Autor:in) / C. Protz (Autor:in) / A. Park (Autor:in) / C. Katsarelis (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022


    Format / Umfang :

    21 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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