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Processing metallic glasses by selective laser melting
Metallic glasses and their descendants, the so-called bulk metallic glasses (BMGs), can be regarded as frozen liquids with a high resistance to crystallization. The lack of a conventional structure turns them into a material exhibiting near-theoretical strength, low Young's modulus and large elasticity. These unique mechanical properties can be only obtained when the metallic melts are rapidly cooled to bypass the nucleation and growth of crystals. Most of the commonly known and used processing routes, such as casting, melt spinning or gas atomization, have intrinsic limitations regarding the complexity and dimensions of the geometries. Here, it is shown that selective laser melting (SLM), which is usually used to process conventional metallic alloys and polymers, can be applied to implement complex geometries and components from an Fe-base metallic glass. This approach is in principle viable for a large variety of metallic alloys and paves the way for the novel synthesis of materials and the development of parts with advanced functional and structural properties without limitations in size and intricacy.
Acoustic scattering in a small centrifugal compressor based on the use of linearized equations in a rotating frame
Numerical solutions of acoustic wave scattering are often used to describe sound propagation through complex geometries. For cases with flow, various forms of the convected equation have been used. A better alternative that includes vortex-sound interaction is instead to use the linearized and harmonic forms of the unsteady fluid flow governing equations. In this paper, a formulation of the linearized equations that include rotational effects, in an acoustic computation using a rotating frame of reference in a stationary geometry, is presented. We demonstrate that rotational effects can be important, e.g., when computing the transmission loss through high-speed compressors. The implementation of the proposed addition to the existing schemes is both simple and numerically inexpensive. The results are expected to have an impact on the research and development related to noise control of high-performance turbo-machinery, e.g., used in automotive or aviation applications at operating conditions that can be represented by steady background flows.