Learning Forum

[pshall]

Within the engineering data tab of Ansys Structural, one of the material libraries is that of Additive Manufacturing Materials containing 17-4PH Stainless, Titanium Alloy, etc. nAdditive manufacturing is such a broad category, ranging from laser sintering to fdm printing which vary wildly in material properties depending on inputs such as infill ratio, print orientation, layer height and more. nDoes anyone know what assumptions were made in the material properties within this section? or even better where this data was pulled from? All I can seem to find is that it is 'sample data representative of XXX material' which is not very helpful! nThanks in advance!n

[John Doyle]

It is just sample material data of the most common materials known to be used successfully for PBF and DED process. It is ultimately the end user's responsibility to validate the material property assumptions.n

[David Mercier]

If you look for more sourced and referenced data about additive manufactured materials, you can have a look into Ansys Granta Selector (Senvol database). Here a search result for 17-4PH stainless steels:nn