Replies to post #3557 on Arcam AB fka AMAVF

[Tom Joad]

Hollow Ti-Al spheres that contain gas phase argon are less dense than solid Ti-Al spheres, so that they exist in Ti alloy powders means either they are not using differential density post processing and we should look for that improvement with a patent, or they already have the process and this is as good as it gets for now and we still look for a patent.

[flying_trader]

Tom, in layman's terms...

In layman's terms does:

"Cast TiAl and EBAMed TiAl have the same density, virtually"

Mean there are no or very little weight savings when moving from cast LPT blades to EBM LPT blades ?

Sorry, I am a finance guy, pretty far from an Engineer...Thanks