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Advanced Manufacturing
Structural Metrology of Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Advanced manufacturing processes create novel materials and components with superior properties and performance, enhancing the precision, efficiency, and capabilities of traditional manufacturing processes. However, these advanced processes pose unique challenges in establishing the relationships between material processing, structures, and properties due to the complexity of material structures and their behavior under processing conditions. To address these challenges, we develop measurement solutions to characterize the structural and microstructural evolution of materials in situ during manufacturing.
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.
Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics
The NIST program seeks to facilitate the commercialization of the ceramics additive manufacturing via the concurrent development of: (1) New measurement approaches to characterize AM processes relevant to ceramic materials, and (2) Computational methods for predictive modeling of an AM workflow, from feedstock to a printed part.