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title: "Failure Analysis on Parts Produced by Additive Manufacturing"
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# Failure Analysis on Parts Produced by Additive Manufacturing

## Metallurgy professionals, you are experiencing failures in your parts produced by additive manufacturing

### What Is Additive Manufacturing?

Additive [manufacturing](https://filab.fr/en/laboratory-analysis-additive-manufacturing.md) consists in building a part by successive layering of powders, most often metal, melted by a beam (laser or electrons, for example).

This manufacturing process makes it possible to produce unique and complex parts. That is why it meets the needs of many applications in highly demanding markets such as aerospace, medical, space, defense, …

### Why study failures in parts produced by additive manufacturing?

Due to their manufacturing process, parts produced by additive manufacturing are particularly sensitive to changes in raw materials. 

Indeed, variations in powder particle size or shape directly impact the quality of the manufactured part. In addition, several failures may be observed, including corrosion, deformation or fractures.

As such, a laboratory specialized in additive manufacturing is essential support for optimizing your materials.

## FILAB supports you in the failure analysis of parts produced by additive manufacturing

With significant experience in additive manufacturing failure analysis and recognized expertise through our COFRAC accreditations and SAFRAN approval (notably in accordance with specification Ma-0015), FILAB supports you in meeting your failure analysis needs related to additive manufacturing activities.

## To go further

[Specific surface area analysis by BET](https://filab.fr/en/our-technical-resources/laboratory-analysis-bet.md)

Morphological analysis by [SEM-FEG EDX](https://filab.fr/en/our-technical-resources/laboratory-analysis-sem-scanning-electron-microscopy.md) or optical microscopy

[Corrosion analysis and assessment](https://filab.fr/en/our-services/our-expertise-services/laboratory-analysis-deposit-contamination/laboratory-expertise-and-analysis-of-corrosion.md)

Assessment of the removal of additive manufacturing residues in medical devices manufactured by powder bed fusion according to [ASTM F3335-20](https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/astm/astmf333520)

[Chemical composition analysis](https://filab.fr/en/our-services/our-analysis-services/chemical-analysis-laboratory.md) of metal powders by [ICP-AES, ICP-MS](https://filab.fr/en/our-technical-resources/laboratory-analysis-icp-icp-ms-icp-aes.md) and/or by elemental analyzer C/S, O/N, H...

[Fracture surface analysis](https://filab.fr/en/our-services/our-expertise-services/laboratory-analysis-failures/fracture-facies-analysis-laboratory.md)

[Micrographic inspection of metal parts according to Pr 7210](https://filab.fr/en/sectors-of-activity/laboratory-analysis-aeronautics-aerospace/filab-supports-you-in-the-inspection-and-qualification-of-metal-parts-produced-by-additive-manufacturing-according-to-pr-7210.md) and [Pr 6000](https://filab.fr/en/sectors-of-activity/laboratory-analysis-aeronautics-aerospace/micrographic-inspection-of-metal-parts-from-additive-manufacturing-according-to-pr-6000.md)

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