Electron Beam Melting and Refining schematic illustrtion.
Last modified March 28, 2006 for version 0.9
EBaporate estimates the penetration depth of the beam, and depth below which temperature does not change during each heating cycle, then calculates temperature vs. depth and time for multiple scan cycles until reaching a pseudo-steady state. It takes into account radiative and convective losses from the top surface. EBaporate can be run from the command line or as a CGI program called EBSurf, however security of EBSurf is not guaranteed so the author strongly recommends against running it on servers exposed to the Internet.
Development of EBaporate versions 0.8 and 0.9 were supported by the Specialty Metals Producers Consortium (SMPC) based at Sandia National Laboratories. As such, those releases are made available to the public three years after release to consortium members.
If you publish results using EBaporate or a derivative, please cite the paper:
| Version | Signature | Release Date |
| EBaporate 0.8 (21 kiB) | sig | October 2, 2002 |
| EBaporate 0.9 (128 kiB) | sig | March 7, 2003 |
Note: Sphlow, which used to be linked from this page, is now part of the Transport Phenomena Archive.
Adam Powell