Glossary for technical terms
Among other things for laser, welding, additive manufacturing, 3D printing of metal and directed energy deposition
Our coaxworks glossary contains technical terms that are relevant to our products, services and applications in the field of laser wire deposition.
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Similar term: application rate
The deposition rate means the ‘mass of metal deposited per unit of productive weld time’.[ISO/TR 25901-1:2016-03, Welding and allied processes — Vocabulary — Part 1: General terms]
The welding consumable in our case is the wire material [EN 544]. The deposition rate is therefore the amount of molten filler wire per time - the deposition rate is therefore usually specified in kg/h.The dilution means the ‘mixing of melted parent metal and deposited metal expressed as a ratio of the melted parent metal to the total melted mass’.
[ISO/TR 25901-1:2016-03, Welding and allied processes — Vocabulary — Part 1: General terms]Directed energy deposition means ‘additive manufacturing process in which focused thermal energy is used to fuse materials by melting as they are being deposited’. ‘ “Focused thermal energy” means that an energy source (for example laser, electron beam or plasma arc) is focused to melt the materials being deposited.’
[ISO/ASTM 52900:2021, Additive manufacturing — General principles — Fundamentals and vocabulary]