Additive manufacturing of energetic materials - Techniques and materials

Authors:

  • Viktor Bladholm
  • Mattias Liljedahl

Publish date: 2020-02-03

Report number: FOI-R--4809--SE

Pages: 16

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • additive manufacturing
  • 3D printing
  • energetic materials

Abstract

Additive manufacturing is a technology that has had a strong progress in many different areas in recent years. The technology allows the ability to manufacture complex geometries, to combine materials with different functions in structures and to quickly change manufacturing processes. Research in additive manufacturing of energetic materials is still a quite new field, but has recently gained increased interest. The reasons for this are partly the many potential improvements of military applications that have been identified, but also the great progress made in the general additive manufacturing industry, both in materials and machinery. This report describes the existing additive manufacturing techniques that are considered suitable and have the ability to be used to produce energetic materials. Another crucial issue that is addressed is the choice of raw materials for these processes. The report is based on a literature study in an EDA collaboration involving FOI together with several European countries - Additive Manufacturing Techniques for Energetic Materials (AMTEM)