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Jason Fox, Felix Kim, Zachary Reese, Christopher Evans
The development of additive manufacturing (AM) has allowed for increased complexity of designs over traditional manufacturing; however, increased design complexity leads to greater difficulties in post process finishing of the part surfaces. Additionally
Alkan Donmez, Tugrul Ozel, Ayca Altay, Richard Leach
Laser powder bed fusion as an additive manufacturing process produces complex surface topography at multiple scales through rapid heating, melting, directional cooling and solidification that are often governed by laser path and layer-to-layer scanning
Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy
Recent studies have shown advantages to utilizing metamodeling techniques to mimic, analyze, and optimize system input-output relationships in Additive Manufacturing (AM). This paper addresses a key challenge in applying such metamodeling methods, namely
Jonathan E. Seppala, Seung Hoon Han, Kaitlyn E. Hillgartner, Chelsea S. Davis, Kalman D. Migler
Material extrusion (ME) is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process that is now used in personal and commercial production where prototyping and customization are required. However, parts produced from ME frequently exhibit poor mechanical
As additive manufacturing (AM) continues to mature as a production technology, the limiting factors that have hindered its adoption in the past still exist, for example, process repeatability and material availability issues. Overcoming many of these
High-speed thermal cameras enable in situ measurement of the temperatures in and around melt pools generated during powder bed fusion processes. These measurements can be used to validate models, to monitor the process, and to better understand material
Justin G. Whiting, Brandon M. Lane, Kevin Chou, Bo Cheng
Thermal properties of additive manufacturing (AM) solids and precursor materials are important factors for build process and part performance. However, measured thermal properties are not well documented, despite being used extensively in AM modeling and
Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy
This paper develops a grey-box modeling approach that combines manufacturing knowledge-based (white-box) models with statistical (black-box) metamodels to improve model reusability and predictability. A white-box model can utilize different types of
Brandon Lane, Steven Grantham, Ho Yeung, Clarence Zarobila, Jason Fox
Researchers and equipment manufacturers are developing in-situ process monitoring techniques with the goal of qualifying additive manufacturing (AM) parts during a build, thereby accelerating the certification process. Co-axial melt pool monitoring (MPM)
Additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled fine grain con-trol over heterogeneous materials in ways that were not previously possible. This paper presents a novel method for representing and communicating heterogeneous ma-terials based structures that include
Nikolas W. Hrabe, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Timothy P. Quinn
A deeper understanding of microstructural influences on the fatigue properties of Ti-6Al-4V made using electron beam melting (EBM) is necessary before this material can be safely implemented in medical devices and aerospace components. Investigation of two
Currently, additive manufactured products represent less than one percent of all manufactured products in the US; however, as the costs of additive manufacturing systems decrease, this technology may become widely adopted and change the supplier