Vacuum Heat Treating Additively Manufactured Parts

Additive manufacturing is a collection of computer-controlled manufacturing processes, each of which deposits material layer upon layer to build a part based on a digital solid model.

This digital short course uses rich visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to teach various vacuum heat treating processes for additively manufactured parts. It focuses on annealing and stress relieving, solid-solution annealing, and solution treating and aging. It addresses several practical concerns involved in using vacuum heat treatment, including temperature measurement, unvented cavities, loose powder, and direct contact of metals in the high-temperature vacuum. This digital short course provides information on sintering and evaporation of metals in vacuum furnaces. An introduction to the different types additive manufacturing processes is included.

Course Outline

• Introduction – Additive Manufacturing Processes
• Heat Treating Processes
• Sintering
• Vacuum Heat Treatment of Metals
• Evaporation of Metals in Vacuum Furnaces
• Conclusion

Who Should Enrol

• Design Engineers
• Operators
• Technicians
• Process Engineers
• QA Managers
• Product Development Specialists
• Sales and Purchasing Professionals

 Course Learning Objectives

• Understand the basics of additive manufacturing processes
• Describe heat treating options for additively manufactured parts
• Explain sintering
• Detail the vacuum heat treatment of different metals and concerns involved
• Describe the evaporation of metals in vacuum furnaces and its impacts

Things you need to know

Special instructions

Course Length- 1.5-2hrs

Access details- The course will be available for viewing for 60 days from the registration date.

Reference materials included- pdf of the lesson

Communication: Access to course materials requires a unique email address for the student enrolled. All communications concerning the status of the class will be accomplished by email. It is the responsibility of the class registrant to ensure that a valid email address has been supplied and email filter settings are not preventing delivery of emails from ASM International-email.