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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2015
Airbus Defence and Space Gmbh, Ottobrunn, DE;
Airbus Group Limited, London, GB;
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH, Ottobrunn, DE;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
The invention provides a method and apparatus for forming a freeform metal structure by wire feed additive manufacturing. In accordance with the method, a holding structure is moved in at least one moving direction, the holding structure holding the metal structure. A metal wire end is fed along an area of deposition on the metal structure in the at least one moving direction. The metal wire end is heated to a melting temperature using a heat source, with the metal wire end as melted being deposited on the metal structure as a metallic build-up material. The metallic build-up material after heating and during the cooling is subjected in the at least one moving direction behind the area of deposition to at least one pulsed magnetic field using a magnetic coil arranged after the heat source, the at least one pulsed magnetic field effecting plastic deformation of the build-up material.