EVALUATION OF CONFORMAL CHANNELS MANUFACTURED IN TOOL STEEL BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WITH PROGRAMMABLE LASER BEAM

• Grant number: 25/05873-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2025
• End date: May 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Physical Metallurgy
• Principal Investigator: Éder Sócrates Najar Lopes
• Grantee: Guilherme Pagan Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (FEM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/06045-0 - Advanced manufacturing: exploration of methods for control and validation of powder bed fusion process in additive manufacturing process, AP.JP

Abstract

This activity plan refers to the undergraduate research (IC No. 3) and includes the actions described within the scope of the JP-FAPESP project, especially for the study of AISI-H13 steel (UNS T20813) and Maraging M300 (UNS K93120), which foresees experimental planning, post-processing and characterization with destructive and non-destructive tests. In this sense, an experimental study will be carried out to evaluate the feasibility of manufacturing "conformal cooling" channels, which are used in molds and matrices for the circulation of cooling fluids, without the need for the construction of support structures.