ICACC 2026: Full Elemental Analysis of Scalmalloy®

Abstract:

Aluminum scandium alloys are proving to have great potential in the automotive, aerospace, and telecommunication industries as modern, high performance, substitutes for existing alloys and semiconductors. The constant advances in additive manufacturing (AM) enables manufacturers to produce materials of complex shapes and sizes. The combination of the high-performance requirements of these alloys as well as the challenges associated with additive manufacturing requires full chemical survey of the starting powder to be used in AM.

Eurofins EAG Laboratories is well positioned to conduct such analyses using multiple techniques available in-house. Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) is best suited for analyzing the major constituents of an alloy. EAG is also able to conduct NIST High Performance ICP-OES analysis. Glow discharge mass spectrometry (GDMS) is a direct-analysis technique able to survey the entire periodic table and provide ppm to sub-ppm reporting limits. Finally, instrumental gas analysis (IGA) can quantify hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen; the latter being an extremely important impurity for AM. Scalmalloy® is an accepted industry standard used in AM. We conducted a full elemental survey of this material at EAG Laboratories.,