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Additive manufacturing (AM) is a powerful technology that can create complex metallic parts and has the potential to improve the economic bottom line for various industries. However, due to process instabilities, and the resulting material defects that
Jaehyuk Kim, Yan Lu, Zhuo Yang, Hyunwoong Ko, Dongmin Shin, Yosep Oh
Real-time monitoring for Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes can greatly benefit from spatial-temporal modeling using deep learning. However, existing, deep-learning approaches in AM are case-dependent, and therefore not robust to changes of control
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Cooling rate is a decisive index to characterize melt pool solidification and determine local microstructure formation in metal powder bed fusion processes. Traditional methods to estimate the cooling rate include in-situ temperature measurement and
Maxwell R. Praniewicz, Jason Fox, Christopher Saldana
Dimensional qualification of additive manufacturing (AM) components is a continuing research problem. Different measurement techniques implemented on the same feature can yield different measurement results. While this can also be true for components made
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Data fusion techniques aim to improve inference results or decision making by combining multiple data sources. Additive manufacturing (AM) in-situ monitoring systems measure various physical phenomena and generate data at different scales and sampling
Cang Zhao, Bo Shi, Shuailei Chen, Tao Sun, Brian Simonds, Anthony Rollett
In the laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metals, extreme thermal conditions create many highly dynamic physical phenomena, such as vaporization and recoil, Marangoni convection, and protrusion and keyhole instability. Collectively, however
Fahad Milaat, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, Matthew Brown
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Zheliang Wang, Ojaswi Agarwal, Jonathan Seppala, Kevin hemker, Thao Nguyen
The tear test is widely used to measure the fracture toughness of thin rubbers sheets and polymer films. More recently, the tear test has been applied to polymer materials produced by melt extrusion additive manufacturing to measure the fracture toughness
Paul Witherell, Brandon Lane, Ho Yeung, Zhuo Yang, Kincho Law
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is one of the most promising forms of Additive Manufacturing (AM), allowing easily customized metal manufactured parts. Industry use is currently limited due to the often unknown and unreliable part quality, which is in large
Paul Witherell, Yan Lu, Ying Liu, David W. Rosen, Timothy Simpson, Charlie Wang
Additive manufacturing (AM) is poised to bring a revolution due to its unique production paradigm. It offers the prospect of mass customization, flexible production, on-demand and decentralized manufacturing. However, a number of challenges stem from not
At the core of most metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems is a high-power (100-1000 W) laser. The delivered light energy drives the entire AM process by determining the melt volume and maximum temperature, which ultimately dictates solidification and
Mark Benedict, Shawn P. Moylan, Souhail Al-Abed, Cindy Ashforth, Y. Kevin Chou, Matthew Di Prima, Alaa Elwany, Michael Gorelik, Astrid Lewis, Todd Luxton, Blake Marshall, William Mullins, Linda Sapochak, Richard Russell, James A. Warren, Douglas Wells
Over the past decade, a consistent theme in enhancing U.S. global competitiveness has been the need for U.S. leadership in critical advanced manufacturing technologies. Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D Printing, has been among those critical
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Orion Kafka, Cheng Yu, Puikei Cheng, Sarah Wolff, Jennifer Bennett, Edward Garboczi, Jian Cao, Xianghui Xiao, Wing Kam Liu
Directed energy deposition (DED) is a metal additive manufacturing technique often used for larger-scale components and part repair. It can result in material performance that differs from conventionally processed metal. This work studies spatial and
Edwin Schwalbach, Jake Benzing, Vikas Sinha, Todd Butler, Adam Pilchak, Kevin Chaput, Norman Schehl, Reji John, Nik Hrabe
Electron beam powder bed fusion scan strategies for parts or part groupings of various sizes and scan line lengths have been found to inadvertently lead to significant variations in crystallographic texture and mechanical properties for Ti–6Al–4V. This
Matthew DiSalvo, Belen Cortes Llanos, Cody LaBelle, David Murdoch, Nancy Allbritton
Microarrays are essential components of analytical instruments. The elements of microarrays may be imbued with additional functionalities and encodings using composite materials and structures, but traditional microfabrication methods present substantial
Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu, Milica Perisic, Yande Ndiaye, Adnan Gujjar, Fan-Tien Cheng, Haw-Ching Yang
In-situ measurements provide vast information for additive manufacturing process understanding and real-time control. Data from various monitoring techniques observes different characteristics of a build process. Fusing multi-modal in-situ monitoring data
Qilin Guo, Minglei Qu, Chihpin Chuang, Lianghua Xiong, Ali Nabaa, Zachary Young, Yang Ren, Peter Kenesei, Fan Zhang, Lianyi Chen
Fusion-based additive manufacturing technologies enable the fabrication of geometrically and compositionally complex parts unachievable by conventional manufacturing methods. However, the non-uniform and far-from-equilibrium heating/cooling conditions pose
Digital twin (DT) is an enabling technology to realize smart manufacturing. DT is characterized by the integration between the cyber and physical spaces. It can potentially change the manufacturing landscape and is well-fitted to the additive manufacturing
Shaw C. Feng, Paul Witherell, Albert T. Jones, Tesfaye Moges, Hyunseop Park, Mostafa Yakout, Hyunwoong Ko
Additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly transitioning to an accepted production technology. This transition has led to increasing demands on data analysis and software tools. Advances in data acquisition and analysis are being propelled by an increase in
Laser powder bed fusion systems use a high-power laser, steered by two galvanometer mirrors to scan a pattern on metal powder layers. The laser spot size, position, and synchronization between the laser power and position are critical to the build quality
Edward Garboczi, Sharu Kandy, Iman Mehdipour, Narayanan Neithalath, Aditya Kumar, Mathieu Bauchy, Samanvaya Srivastava, Torben Gaedt, Gaurav Sant
Extrusion-based 3D printing with rapidly hardening polymeric materials is capable of building almost any conceivable structure. However, concrete, one of the most widely used materials for large-scale structural components, is generally based on inorganic