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Additive manufacturing: Toward holistic design

Journal Article · · Scripta Materialia

Here, additive manufacturing offers unprecedented opportunities to design complex structures optimized for performance envelopes inaccessible under conventional manufacturing constraints. Additive processes also promote realization of engineered materials with microstructures and properties that are impossible via traditional synthesis techniques. Enthused by these capabilities, optimization design tools have experienced a recent revival. The current capabilities of additive processes and optimization tools are summarized briefly, while an emerging opportunity is discussed to achieve a holistic design paradigm whereby computational tools are integrated with stochastic process and material awareness to enable the concurrent optimization of design topologies, material constructs and fabrication processes.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1356826
Report Number(s):
SAND--2017-2492J; PII: S1359646217300957
Journal Information:
Scripta Materialia, Journal Name: Scripta Materialia Journal Issue: C Vol. 135; ISSN 1359-6462
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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