Sacrificial Powder Pressure Control for Infiltration of Microscale Binder Jet Printed Metal Parts

Author:

Davis Henry D.1,Harkness James G.1,Kohls Isa M.1,Jensen Brian D.2,Vanfleet Richard1,Crane Nathan B.2,Davis Robert C.1

Affiliation:

1. Brigham Young University Department of Physics and Astronomy, , Provo, UT 84602

2. Brigham Young University Department of Mechanical Engineering, , Provo, UT 84602

Abstract

Abstract High-temperature microfluidic devices (such as gas chromatography microcolumns) have traditionally been fabricated using photolithography, etching, and wafer bonding which allow for precise microscale features but lack the ability to form complex 3D designs. Metal additive manufacturing could enable higher complexity microfluidic designs if reliable methods for fabrication are developed, but forming small negative features is challenging—especially in powder-based processes. In this paper, the formation of sealed metal microchannels was demonstrated using stainless-steel binder jetting with bronze infiltration. To create small negative features, bronze infiltrant must fill the porous part produced by binder jetting without filling the negative features. This was achieved through sacrificial powder infiltration (SPI), wherein sacrificial powder reservoirs (pore size ∼60 µm) are used to control infiltrant pressure. With this pressure control, the infiltrant selectively filled the small pores between particles in the printed part (pore size ∼3 µm) while leaving printed microchannels (700 µm and 930 µm) empty. To develop the SPI method, a pore filling study was performed in this stainless-steel/bronze system with 370 µm, 650 µm, and 930 µm microchannel segments. This study enabled SPI process design on these length scales by determining variations in pore filling across a sample and preferential filling between different sized pores.

Publisher

ASME International

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