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Kuldeep Mandloi, Christopher Evans, Jason Fox, Harish Cherukuri, Jimmie Miller, Angela Allen, David Deisenroth, Alkan Donmez
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility of incorporating cooling channels into components in high-temperature applications. Additionally, it has the prospect of optimizing cooling channel geometry unconstrained by geometric limitations of
Maxwell R. Praniewicz, Gaurav Ameta, Jason Fox, Christopher Saldana
This work explores impact of refined surface registrations of voxel and point cloud data sets on accuracy of multi-method qualification of additively manufactured (AM) lattices. Voxel and point cloud sets of an AM lattice were aligned using derived
Maxwell Praniewicz, Jason Fox, Gaurav Ameta, Felix Kim, Paul Witherell, Christopher Saldana
The use of lattice structures produced using additive manufacturing (AM) is of great interest to the aerospace and medical industries because of their potential for strength/weight optimization. However, their use is often limited due to challenges in
Yosep Oh, Michael Sharp, Timothy A. Sprock, Soonjo Kwon
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has brought positive opportunities with phenomenal changes to traditional manufacturing. Consistent efforts and novel studies into AM use have resolved critical issues in manufacturing and broadened technical boundaries. Build
David Deisenroth, Sergey Mekhontsev, Brandon Lane, Leonard M. Hanssen, Ivan Zhirnov, Vladimir Khromchenko, Steven Grantham, Daniel Cardenas-Garcia, Alkan Donmez
This paper describes advances in measuring the characteristic spatial distribution of surface temperature and emissivity during laser-metal interaction under conditions relevant for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing processes. Detailed
The National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a facility titled the Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed to advance the research in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes. The testbed adopted an open control architecture which allows
Saina Abolmaali, Alexander Vinel, Jason Fox, Jia Liu, Daniel Silva, Nima Shamsaei
Surface roughness is an important characteristic of additively manufactured parts, as it can impact various mechanical properties, such as friction or fatigue life. Further, surface roughness can change significantly depending on a number of factors: part
Jordan Weaver, Adam L. Pintar, Carlos R. Beauchamp, Howard Joress, Kil-Won Moon, Thien Q. Phan
High-throughput experiments that use combinatorial samples with rapid measurements can be used to provide process-structure-property information at reduced time, cost, and effort. Developing these tools and methods is essential in additive manufacturing
Sourav Saha, Orion Kafka, Ye Lu, Cheng Yu, Wing Kam Liu
Design of additively manufactured metallic parts requires computational models that can predict the mechanical response of parts considering the microstructural, manufacturing, and operating conditions. The article discusses the authors' response to Air
Hyunseop Park, Hyunwoong Ko, Yung-Tsun Lee, Shaw C. Feng, Paul Witherell, Hyunbo Cho
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is becoming data-intensive. The ability to identify Data Analytics (DA) opportunities for effective use of AM data becomes a critical factor in the success of AM. To successfully identify high-potential DA opportunities in AM
Embedded 3D printing, wherein fluid inks are extruded into a bath, has enabled the manufacture of complex, custom structures ranging from cell-laden tissue analogues to soft robotics. This method encompasses two techniques: embedded ink writing (EIW)
The potential significance of FAIR data is hard to overstate, but equally hard to prove in totality. FAIR data can change the paradigm for research and development, qualification/certification, and acquisition, sustainment in AM. We can predict the
Advanced laser based additive manufacturing, such as laser powder bed fusion, promise to revolutionize 3D metal printing. However, a challenge remains in controlling pore generating turbulence. Printed parts with pore defects can fail quality certification
Justin G. Whiting, Vipin Tondare, Shawn P. Moylan, Alkan Donmez
We describe a simple device called Standard Spreadability Tester (SST). The idea behind the SST is that instead of trying to predict how a powder will spread using the powder's intrinsic properties (e.g., PSD, morphology, surface, and chemical makeup) or
Ruimin Chen, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Timothy Simpson, Soundar Kumara, Hui Yang
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the creation of complex geometries that are difficult to realize using conventional manufacturing techniques. Advanced sensing is increasingly being used to improve AM processes, and installing different sensors onto AM
Alec Saville, Sven Vogel, Adam Creuziger, Jake Benzing, Adam Pilchak, Lee Semiatin, Peeyush Nandwana, Kester Clarke, Jonah Klemm-Toole, Amy Clarke
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) enables customizable, on-demand parts, allowing for new designs and improved engineering performance. Unfortunately, the ability to control AM metal alloy microstructures is still lacking, especially when considering
Imperative to the adoption of additive manufacturing for heat transfer applications is the understanding of as-built surface texture. In this work we analyze surface height data to determine the effect of build angle. Surface data is analyzed using
Important to the success of additive manufacturing (AM) is the ability to inspect and qualify parts. The research community is pushing to identify correlations between part function and surface topography, yet little guidance specific to AM surface
Edward Garboczi, Rainer Hebert, Yu Sun, Mark Aindow
In an earlier paper, titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) powders from six different vendors were characterized with a number of methods in an attempt to distinguish these powders that were all nominally meeting additive manufacturing standards. One of the methods
Yoontae Kim, Eun-Jin Lee, Albert Davydov, Stanislav Frakhtbeyen, Jonathan Seppala, Laurence Chow, Tagaki Shozo, Stella Alimperti
Additive biomanufacturing has been adapted in a wide variety of biomedical and tissue engineering applications, including orthopedics. The ability to print biocompatible, patient-specific geometries with controlled porosity, mechanical strength has made
Sourav Saha, Orion Kafka, Ye Lu, Cheng Yu, Wing Kam Liu
Challenge 4 of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge Series asks the participants to predict the grain-average elastic strain tensors of a few specific \textitchallenge grains} during tensile loading, based on
Edward Glaessgen, Lyle Levine, Paul Witherell, Alkan Donmez, Michael Gorelik, Nate Ashmore, Rick Barto, Corbett Battaile, Harry Millwater, Gerard Nanni, Anthony D. Rollett, Edwin Schwalbach, Vasisht Venkatesh
This report documents the goals, organization and outcomes of a TIM on Computational Materials Approaches for Qualification by Analysis, co-organized by the NASA, NIST and the FAA. The TIM was held at NASA Langley Research Center on January 15-16, 2020
Ho Yeung, Jordan Weaver, J. Chen, Y. Guo, G Yang, D. Lin, W. Tan
The effect of the scan strategy on the microstructure is investigated on a custom-built laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing testbed. Eight stainless steel 17-4 cubic parts were built to compare two different scan strategies: conventional and
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies continue to mature, evolving into stalwarts of high- end production lines, particularly with metals AM. Technology maturation has been facilitated by efforts in materials characterization, process sensing, and part
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing process where laser power is applied to fuse the spread powder and fabricate industrial parts in a layer by layer fashion. Despite its great promise in fabrication flexibility, print quality has