Recently, vacuum plasma spray forming (VPSF) has been identified as a process capable of manufacturing near-net-shape components for advanced technology applications such as aerospace, defense, and chemical process industries. By optimizing the deposit structure via intelligent control of process parameters and utilizing post-deposition heat treatments, deposit structures with properties better than conventionally cast materials and, in some cases, equivalent to wrought materials can be produced. In this study, VPSF process has been employed to form near-net-shape structures of one of the...
Recently, vacuum plasma spray forming (VPSF) has been identified as a process capable of manufacturing near-net-shape components for advanced technolo...