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Eoin McAleer, M Alazzawi, C Hwang, Jacob LaManna, David Jacobson, R.A. Haber, E. Koray Akdogan
Stereolithography of ceramics remains one of the most powerful additive manufacturing routes for the creation of intricate ceramic parts. Despites its strength as a forming tool, ceramic stereolithography requires a challenging debinding stage due to the
Thomas Kolibaba, Callie Higgins, Zack Buck, Dash Weeks, Jason Killgore
Photopolymer additive manufacturing has become the subject of widespread interest in recent years due to its capacity to enable fabrication of difficult geometries that are impossible to build with traditional modes of manufacturing. The flammability of
Hans-Henrik Konig, Niklas Hollander Pettersson, A Durga, Steven Van Petegem, Daniel Grolimund, Qilin Guo, Chihpin Chuang, lianyi Chen, Christos Oikonomou, Fan Zhang, Greta Lindwall
Solidification during fusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) is characterized by high solidification velocities and high thermal gradients, two factors that control the solidification mode of AM metals and alloys. Using two synchrotron-based, in situ
Efe Balta, Michael Pease, James Moyne, Kira Barton, Dawn Tilbury
Smart manufacturing (SM) systems utilize run-time data to improve productivity via intelligent decision-making and analysis mechanisms on both machine and system levels. The increased adoption of cyber-physical systems in SM leads to the comprehensive
Nicholas Derimow, Elisabeth Mansfield, Jason Holm, Nik Hrabe
Thermogravimetric analysis of Ti-6Al-4V powders (virgin Grade 5 and a once used Grade 23) was conducted up to 800 C in an industrial grade Ar environment. A standard starting particle size distribution (PSD) for electron beam powder-bed fusion (PBF-EB)
Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), assemblies of oppositely charged polymers with powerful properties and wide-ranging applications, are currently not melt-processable via any conventional means and have been limited commercially to applications only as
Ward L. Johnson, Jake Benzing, Orion Kafka, Newell Moser, Derek Harris, Jeremy Iten, Nik Hrabe
Acoustic nonlinearity and loss are found to be positively correlated with porosity at industrially relevant levels of less than half a percent in commercially pure aluminum produced by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) with several different power levels
Benjamin Caplins, Callie Higgins, Thomas Kolibaba, Uwe Arp, C Cameron Miller, Dianne L. Poster, Clarence Zarobila, Yuqin Zong, Jason Killgore
Vat photopolymerization (VP) is a rapidly growing category of additive manufacturing. As VP methods mature the expectation is that the quality of printed parts will be highly reproducible. At present, detailed characterization of the light engines used in
Mehdi Naderi, Jordan Weaver, David Deisenroth, Nagaraja Iyyer, Raymond McCauley
In additive manufacturing, the part quality is highly dependent on process parameters. The morphology of the melt pool (depth and width) is highly affected by process parameter selection. Available scaling laws more or less overestimate or underestimate
Recent research shows how a side-channel attack on a material extrusion-based 3D printing process can bypass encryption-based defenses to obtain proprietary design information. This result has critical implications for outsourced additive manufacturing (AM
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
Fahad Milaat, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, Matthew Brown
Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses powerful beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus producing parts with great geometric complexity. For PBF, process parameters, environmental control
Zhuo Yang, Brandon Lane, Yan Lu, Ho Yeung, Jaehyuk Kim, Yande Ndiaye, Sundar Krishnamurty
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
Zhuo Yang, Jaehyuk Kim, Yan Lu, Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane, Albert T. Jones, Yande Ndiaye
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
Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses high-power beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus producing parts with great geometric complexity. For PBF, the selection of appropriate process
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
Extrusion-based 3D bioprinting is a powerful tool for fabricating complex cell-laden constructs. Embedded Ink Writing (EIW) is an extrusion-based printing technique wherein a nozzle embedded into a support bath writes continuous filaments. Because it
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