Material testing (1)

T4.4 Material testing (FAU, CHALM, HAB, METAS, EOS, POLITO) T4.4 correlates the development of the additive manufacturing process and the on-line process monitoring with the resulting materials properties. FAU will apply NDT and DT for material analysis. NDT comprises computed tomography for fault analysis, resonance frequency analysis for determination of the elastic modulus and laser flash analysis for determination of the thermal diffusivity (copper based materials). In addition, metallography study and dedicated microscopy analysis (SEM/EDX/EBSD+FIB and TEM) will be performed when required for detailed microstructure analysis. Mechanical testing of the samples (TS, impact test, hardness, etc.) will be also performed in support of the T4.1 - T4.3.