Direct Metal Deposition (DMD)
ME 459 Advanced Topics in Design and Manufacturing
1. What is Direct Metal Deposition?
2. Research Institutes
3. Commercial Brands
Optomec Design Company offers the first commercially available Direct Metal Deposition System for fabricating fully dense metal parts. The Laser Engineered Net Shaping precess, initially developed at Sandia National Laboratories and licensed to Optomec for commercialization, builds up metal parts by injecting metal power into the focus spot of a high power laser beam. [U.S. Laser provides high power CW Nd:YAG lasers, and fiber optic beam delivery systems]
