Research progress on additive manufacturing of copper and its alloys
Copper and its alloys exhibit excellent properties,such as high thermal conductivity and high electrical conductivity,which are widely used in electronic industry,transportation,aerospace and other fields.Additive manufacturing technology can make copper and its alloy parts possess a more complicated,refined,light and integrated structure.In this work,the principles,characteristics and process advancements of additive manufacturing technology for copper and its alloys were analyzed.The types of copper and its alloys including pure copper,CuCrZr,CuCrNb and other copper alloys fabricated by additive manufacturing were summarized.On this basis,the research progress of additive manufacturing technologies for copper and its alloys including reducing the laser reflectivity of copper and regulating microstructure,etc were summarized.The application of copper and its alloys fabricated by additive manufacturing in aerospace,electronics industry and others were discussed.Finally,the development tendency of additively manufactured copper and its alloys was prospected.
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