Ultrasonic consolidation Hybrid printer

An ultrasonic consolidation printer machine is one of the more interesting options for a full strength material printer. It could print in metals, plastics and maybe ceramics and it's main advantage over other methods that involve melting is that it does the material fusion in the solid state. The materials in the weld zone do not usually get hotter than about half their melting point.

Therefore, it may be better WRT not distorting the already-machined lower layers (which is important since they are supposed to be dimensionally finished) or to what extent they are distorted it may be easier to predict and compensate for the distortion.

I have done a bunch of research on this through google scholar and patents and the web and will post the notes soon. It looks promising. Also need to make sure this page, the metal deposition head page, and the multimaterial printer page are put in the right place on the wiki. Greenatolsecondtry 10:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)