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Customers and Beneficiaries
- Simulation software companies.
- Code validation against high fidelity data sets (“class 1” benchmark tests) – allows product improvement
- Excellent selling points when codes correctly predict measurements
- Improved contact with potential users
- Companies that manufacture products using AM
- Improved, validated simulation tools enable better products at reduced time and cost
- Excellent selling points if builds succeed in “class 2” benchmark tests
- Potential improvements in part qualification, leading to increased product demand
- Companies that manufacture AM machines and characterization tools
- Excellent selling points if builds succeed in “class 2” benchmark tests
- Potential improvements in part qualification leading to increased demand
- End users of AM products (NASA, army, navy, air force, industry, etc.)
- Improved confidence in AM products
- Potential improvements in part qualification
- Improved understanding of how to specify AM products for acquisition
- National laboratories / Academia
- Validation of HPC (and other) simulation tools
- Comparability of results based on standard testing methods, set-up and materials
- Relevance of world class measurement capabilities to an advanced manufacturing paradigm that is a national priority
Contacts
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(301) 975-6032
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(301) 975-2265
Created July 27, 2017, Updated April 23, 2025