Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Cardenas, Tana; Schmidt, Derek William; Peterson, Dominic S.

doi:10.13182/FST15-249

Title: Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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We describe the use at Los Alamos National Laboratory of additive manufacturing (AM) for a variety of jigs and coating, assembly, and radiography fixtures. Additive manufacturing has also been used to produce shipping containers of complex design that would be too costly to have fabricated using traditional techniques. The current goal for AM use in target fabrication is to increase target accuracy and rigidity. This has been realized by implementing AM into target stalk fabrication, allowing increased complexity to address target strength and the addition of features for alignment at facilities. As a result, we will describe the fabrication of these components and our plans to utilize AM in the future.

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Cardenas, Tana ^[1]; Schmidt, Derek William ^[1]; Peterson, Dominic S. ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1296667

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-27023
Journal ID: ISSN 1536-1055

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Fusion Science and Technology

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 70; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1536-1055

Publisher:: American Nuclear Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototype; Additive Manufacturing; Rapid Prototype; Inertial Confinement Fusion; High Energy Density Plasma Physics

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                    Cardenas, Tana, Schmidt, Derek William, and Peterson, Dominic S. Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Cardenas, Tana, Schmidt, Derek William, & Peterson, Dominic S. Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.13182/FST15-249

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                    Cardenas, Tana, Schmidt, Derek William, and Peterson, Dominic S. Mon .  
"Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.13182/FST15-249.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1296667.

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@article{osti_1296667,

  title        = {Additive manufacturing capabilities applied to inertial confinement confusion at Los Alamos National Laboratory},

  author       = {Cardenas, Tana and Schmidt, Derek William and Peterson, Dominic S.},

  abstractNote = {We describe the use at Los Alamos National Laboratory of additive manufacturing (AM) for a variety of jigs and coating, assembly, and radiography fixtures. Additive manufacturing has also been used to produce shipping containers of complex design that would be too costly to have fabricated using traditional techniques. The current goal for AM use in target fabrication is to increase target accuracy and rigidity. This has been realized by implementing AM into target stalk fabrication, allowing increased complexity to address target strength and the addition of features for alignment at facilities. As a result, we will describe the fabrication of these components and our plans to utilize AM in the future.},

  doi          = {10.13182/FST15-249},

  journal      = {Fusion Science and Technology},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 70,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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