Technology

Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Overview

Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) is a revolutionary process technology that uses sound to merge layers of metal drawn from featureless foil stock. The process produces true metallurgical bonds with full density and works with a variety of metals such as aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and titanium. In combining additive and subtractive process capabilities, UAM can create deep slots, hollow, latticed, or honeycombed internal structures, and other complex geometries impossible with conventional subtractive manufacturing processes. 

This versatile process yields a wide range of benefits, such as:

• Tamperproof, ultra-rugged enclosures
• Low temperature process enables electronics embedding
• Non-destructive, fully-encapsulating fiber embedding
• Complex internal geometries
• Fully enclosed, sealed internal cavity creation and object embedding
• Dissimilar material joining
• Rapid prototype components
• Many others