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Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) Program studies the characteristics, material properties, and behaviors of ceramics to develop metrology tools and measurement standards for AM. If you are interested in collaboration opportunities, or want to learn more about our efforts in ceramics AM, please contact us.


 

a 3D printer prints a ceramic vase
Additive manufacturing can build customized parts and products for various applications, like this 3D printed ceramic vase. 
Credit: Adobe Stock

Projects

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Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics

Additive manufacturing of ceramics seeks to facilitate the commercialization of ceramics AM via the concurrent development of new measurement approaches, characterization, and computational methods for ceramic materials. Read more. 

Project Leader: Russell Maier

Ceramic Additive Manufacturing

We are leveraging our expertise in measurements and simulations of material processes to develop rigorous metrology-based solutions for characterizing difficult-to-measure rheological properties of ceramic feedstock for direct-ink writing (DIW) and to implement in-situ/operando characterization of ceramics evolution during AM build and post-processing using synchrotron-based high-energy X-ray scattering and tomography. Read more.

Multiscale Structure and Dynamics in Advanced Technological Materials

This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for characterizing microstructure and dynamics in advanced functional materials of technological importance, including heterogeneous or porous materials, over multiple length scales in situ and operando. Read more.

Project Leaders: Andrew Allen & Fan Zhang

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In operando ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle X-ay scattering, and wide-angle X-ray scattering measurements of the precipitate evolution and simultaneous phase evolution in an advanced nickel-based superalloy heated over 4 hours to 1100 °C. Credit: NIST

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing

NIST's goal is to support innovation in the Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) industry by enabling unprecedented high-resolution, mechanically-precise vat photopolymerization via fundamental understanding informed by novel voxel and sub-voxel-scale characterization throughout all major stages of the printing process. Read more.

Project Leaders: Jason Killgore & Callie Higgins

Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology

We develop instrumentation and methodologies for measurement of temperature and stress fields in polymeric materials and their real-time materials responses. We focus on measurements where national needs have been identified, such as plastics recycling and composite curing, and in emerging areas that represent sources of new U.S. manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing. Read more. 

Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala

NIST AM publishes research in additive manufacturing of ceramics. View some of our publications here.

Manufacturing, Additive manufacturing, Materials, Ceramics, Metrology and Standards

Contacts

Additive Manufacturing Program Coordinator

Created November 13, 2024, Updated December 11, 2024