RT Journal Article T1 OPTIMIZATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE LASER METAL DEPOSITION PROCESS APPLIED TO HIGH HARDNESS COATINGS BY THE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF COAXIAL NOZZLES A1 Ramiro-Castro, Pedro A1 Ortiz-Edesa, Mikel A1 Alberdi-Gurrutxaga, Amaia A1 Lamikiz-Mentxaka, Aitzol AB Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) or laser cladding is a technology capable of coating, repairing and manufacturing components by injecting molten metal powder on a substrate. Some of the advantages of this technology are: wide range of materials available in powder, reduced thermal distortion, coatings and repaired parts of high quality. However, the biggest advantage can be its relative ease of implementation in a multiprocess machine tool and subsequent automatization. The supply of hybrid machines in the world market that implements the LMD process is increasing (IBARMIA, DMG MORI, MAZAK, OKUMA, etc...), making the production more flexible in a single machine and introducing this process in more applications and industrial sectors. However, hybridization also presents problems that are difficult to solve. Some of the most noteworthy are those associated with the use of powdered metallic material both from the point of view of the safety and hygiene of the operators and also of the waste management and integrity of the machine itself, being its most serious effects at lower efficiency of the process. In this article, the study of the efficiency of different LMD nozzles is addressed for the coating of a hardened steel using for it the hybrid multiprocess machine IBARMIA ZVH45 /1600 Add + process, with the aim of finding the most efficient and, therefore (the one that generates less waste) and which, in turn, offers good productivity. SN 0012-7361 YR 2018 FD 2018-11 LA eng NO Ramiro-Castro , P , Ortiz-Edesa , M , Alberdi-Gurrutxaga , A & Lamikiz-Mentxaka , A 2018 , ' OPTIMIZATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE LASER METAL DEPOSITION PROCESS APPLIED TO HIGH HARDNESS COATINGS BY THE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF COAXIAL NOZZLES ' , Dyna (Spain) , vol. 93 , no. 6 , pp. 613-619 . https://doi.org/10.6036/8836 NO Los autores agradecen a la Comisión Europea por su apoyo al proyecto “PARADDISE: a Productive, Affordable and Reliable solution for large scale manufacturing of metallic components by combining laser-based ADDItive and Subtractive processes with high Efficiency” (subvención 723440), que es una iniciativa de “Photonics and Factories of the Future Public Private Partnership”. Los autores también agradecen al Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad por la financiación del proyecto “ADDICLEAN: tecnología híbrida de fabricación ecoeficiente de piezas de alto valor añadido” (RTC-2015-4194-5). Los autores agradecen por último a la Viceconsejería de Tecnología, Innovación y Competitividad, por la financiación del proyecto “ADDISEND: cooperación científica en fabricación aditiva para un control robusto de la cadena de valor” (nº expediente kk-2018/00115) dentro del programa Elkartek 2018. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 22 jul 2024