Materials and technologies for production products by additive manufacturing

The paper presents comparative schemes of classical production of complex products and their manufacturing with using additive technologies, including the main positive and negative aspects of using additive technologies. The article listes the main technologies of additive manufacturing of products, indicating the specifics of their application. The paper describes the methods of production and properties of powder materials. The spheroidization technology of powder materials and its post-processes is described. The article presents the concept of full cycle additive manufacturing. The basic software packages for modeling the processes of additive production of products from various metal systems are presented.