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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
The lack of strong correlations between the as-built surface topography of AM parts and heat transfer efficiency inhibits development for these applications. This issue stems from the complex and multi-scale surface topography along with significant
Jason Fox, Christopher Evans, Aarush Sood, Romaine Isaacs, Brigid Mullany, Angela Allen, Ed Morse
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is one of a group of manufacturing technologies capable of producing complex structures and surfaces in small batches and with reduced lead time. Materials ranging from light metals (e.g., aluminum alloys) to high temperature
Alec Saville, Jake Benzing, Sven Vogel, Jessica Buckner, Collin Donohoue, Andrew Kustas, Adam Creuziger, Kester Clarke, Amy Clarke
Metallic additive manufacturing (AM) provides a customizable and tailorable manufacturing process for new engineering designs and technologies. The greatest challenge currently facing metallic AM is maintaining control of microstructural evolution during
Embedded 3D printing enables the manufacture of soft, intricate structures. In the technique, a nozzle is embedded into a viscoelastic support bath and extrudes filaments or droplets. While embedded 3D printing expands the printable materials space to low
Siqing Zhang, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Timothy Simpson, Soundar Kumara, Hui Yang
Additive manufacturing provides a higher level of flexibility to build customized products with complex geometries. However, AM is currently limited in its ability to ensure quality assurance and process repeatability. Advanced imaging provides unique
Martin Wissink, Kirk Goldenberger, Luke Ferguson, Yuxuan Zhang, Hassina Bilheux, Jacob LaManna, David Jacobson, Michael Kass, Charles Finney, Jonathan Willocks
Neutron imaging offers deep penetration through many high-Z materials while also having high sensitivity to certain low-Z isotopes such as 1H, 6Li, and 10B. This unique combination of properties has made neutron imaging an attractive tool for a wide range
Jason Fox, Romaine Isaacs, Aarush Sood, Paul Brackman, Brigid Mullany, Edward Morse, Angela Allen, Edson Santos, Christopher Evans
Coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) surface inspection of additively manufactured nickel super alloy 625 reveal features over a broad range of length scales beyond those typically reported. High resolution
Maxwell Praniewicz, Jason Fox, Christopher Saldana
Lattice structures created via additive manufacturing are of interest in several demanding industries, however the qualification of these components via X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is limited due to traceability requirements. In this work, a novel
Co-axial melt pool monitoring is an in-situ method applied in laser-powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes which uses a high-speed camera optically aligned with the scanning laser to continuously observe and measure the melt pool. This results in a large
The number and types of measurement devices used for monitoring Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Metals (PBF-LB/M) processes and inspecting the resulting Additive Manufacturing (AM) metal parts have increased rapidly in recent years. The variety, volume
Edward Garboczi, Newell Moser, Joseph Biernacki, Hajar Afarani, Ebrahim Esfahani
Additively manufactured cement-based structures for infrastructure applications suffer from in-construction shape deformations, which are a strong function of process conditions and the rheology of the printing material (cement paste, mortar, or concrete)
Maxwell Pinz, Jake Benzing, Adam Pilchak, Somnath Ghosh
Building from a foundation of microstructural characterization, mechanical testing, 3D statistically equivalent microstructural volume elements (SEMVEs), and image-based microstructural modeling, this paper develops an effective crystal plasticity model
Ward Johnson, Anne-Francoise Obaton, Alex Van den Bossch, Bryan Butsch, Imane Zouggarh, Olivier Burnet, Florent Soulard
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the production of parts with extremely complex shapes, such as lattice structures and internal structures (cavities, channels). As a result of this geometric complexity, the applicability of most conventional