As part of the BMBF-funded research project CustoMat_3D, the EDAG Group, together with eight project partners, has developed an aluminum alloy for use in vehicles, which is capable of providing both high strength and high failure strain. The latter is particularly important for crash loading.

During the last 3 years the whole process chain from powder production to simulation and component development was considered. The definition of alloys and the production of powders was carried out by the Leibniz Institute for Material Oriented Technologies (IWU) and Kymera International. The processing and process development in powder bed-based laser beam melting took place at Fraunhofer IAPT, at GE Additive and at FKM Sintertechnik GmbH. The Fraunhofer ITWM and MAGMA Giessereitechnologie GmbH researched a corresponding simulation of the rapid cooling of the melt during the process. The demonstration of the performance was carried out at Mercedes-Benz AG and EDAG Engineering GmbH with the support of Altair Engineering.

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