MetalicaRap:Physics Principles

Principles

Following EBM metal vaporisation loss of vacuum leading to loss of beam quality

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Problem: Pressure from evaporated material

Example from Tansen “Practial manufacturing walk through”

Vaporizing Titanium at with .04 W into metal volume evaporating at the price of 5x104 J/cm3 evaporates

With the density of metallic Ti 4.5 g/cm3 the above volume amounts to 3.6x10-6 g. And with a molar mass of Ti 204.37 g/mol it is 1.76x10-8 mol. Now: ONE mole of a gas takes a volume of 24 Liter at a pressure of 1 atmosphere or 101,325 Pa = 1013.25 millibar. Relative to this an amount of 1.76x10-8 mol vaporized titanium in a 1000 L (1 m3) volume will pr second contribute to the pressure with the following value

Thus the pump has to remove 4.3x10-7 millibars of pressure per second. Maybe this is not at all a problem. I don’t know about pumping capacities. I just wanted to put attention to it.

PS: According to my tables the heat of evaporation of Ti is not 5x104 but 4x104 J/cm3 (8.953 MJ/kg times 4.5x103 kg/m3