Material Development for Tooling Applications Using Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM)

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1209207· OSTI ID:1209207

Duty, Chad E. ^[1]; Drye, Tom ^[2]; Franc, Alan ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Techmer Engineering Solutions (ES), Clinton, TN (United States)

Techmer Engineered Solutions (TES) is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop materials and evaluate their use for ORNL s recently developed Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system for tooling applications. The first phase of the project established the performance of some commercially available polymer compositions deposited with the BAAM system. Carbon fiber reinforced ABS demonstrated a tensile strength of nearly 10 ksi, which is sufficient for a number of low temperature tooling applications.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1209207
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2015/78; ED2701000; CEED492
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English