Additive manufacturing — Feedstock materials — Methods to characterize metal powders

This document provides technical specifications for metallic powders intended to be used in additive manufacturing and covers the following aspects:

— documentation and traceability;

— sampling;

— particle size distribution;

— chemical composition;

— characteristic densities;

— morphology;

— flowability;

— contamination;

— packaging and storage.

This document does not deal with safety aspects.

In addition, this document gives specific requirements for used metallic powders in additive manufacturing.