Projects

The Material Measurement Laboratory's Additive Manufacturing Program (MML AM) studies the fundamental behaviors of materials under various conditions to produce reference standards that support U.S. commerce. These reference standards benefit U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness.

The following are MML AM projects dedicated to the metrology of AM materials and several material types (metals, polymers, ceramics, & biomedicine).  Feel free to contact us with questions or opportunities to collaborate.

Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM Bench)

Project Leader: Lyle Levine 

Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics

Project Leader: Russell Maier

Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture

Project Leader: Nik Hrabe

Additive Manufacturing of Metals (AMOM) has several focus areas.

• AMOM Accelerated AM Alloy Design

  Project Leaders: Carelyn Campbell & Samantha Webster

• AMOM Composition Sensitivity

  Project Leader: James Zuback

• AMOM Mechanical Characterization

  Project Leaders: Lyle Levine & Saadi Habib

• AMOM Performance of AM-Processed Alloys

  Project Leader: Mark R. Stoudt

Evaluation of Structure-Property Relationship in Fiber Based Tunable Nonwoven Polymer Elastomer Nanocomposites for Protective Applications

Project Leader: Zois Tsinas

Materials Microdeposition

Project Leader: Michael Verkouteren

Multifunctional 3D Printable Polymer-Metal Composites (Coming Soon)

Contact Ran Tao for information about the project.

Noninvasive Methods for Assessing Cell Viability in Scaffolds

Project Leader: Carl Simon & Greta Babakhanova

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing

Project Leaders: Jason Killgore & Callie Higgins

Point-of-Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Precision Medicine

Project Leaders: Thomas Forbes & Greg Gillen

Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology has several focus areas: 

• Polymer Material Extrusion

  Project Leader: Anthony Kotula

• Bioprinting

  Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula

• Dense Suspensions and Thermoset AM

  Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala

• Polymer AM for Sheet Metal Forming

  Project Leaders: Jonathan Seppala

Synchrotron Characterization for Advanced Manufacturing (Coming Soon)

Contact Fan Zhang for information about the project. 

True Becquerel

Project Leader: Ryan Fitzgerald