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Title: Breaking Barriers in Polymer Additive Manufacturing

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables the creation of complex structures directly from a computer-aided design (CAD). There are limitations that prevent the technology from realizing its full potential. AM has been criticized for being slow and expensive with limited build size. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a large scale AM system that improves upon each of these areas by more than an order of magnitude. The Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system directly converts low cost pellets into a large, three-dimensional part at a rate exceeding 25 kg/h. By breaking these traditional barriers, it is possible for polymer AM to penetrate new manufacturing markets.

Authors:
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  1. ORNL
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1185467
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: SAMPE, Baltimore, MD, USA, 20150518, 20150521
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
additive manufacturing; carbon fiber

Citation Formats

Love, Lonnie J, Duty, Chad E, Post, Brian K, Lind, Randall F, Lloyd, Peter D, Kunc, Vlastimil, Peter, William H, and Blue, Craig A. Breaking Barriers in Polymer Additive Manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Love, Lonnie J, Duty, Chad E, Post, Brian K, Lind, Randall F, Lloyd, Peter D, Kunc, Vlastimil, Peter, William H, & Blue, Craig A. Breaking Barriers in Polymer Additive Manufacturing. United States.
Love, Lonnie J, Duty, Chad E, Post, Brian K, Lind, Randall F, Lloyd, Peter D, Kunc, Vlastimil, Peter, William H, and Blue, Craig A. 2015. "Breaking Barriers in Polymer Additive Manufacturing". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185467.
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abstractNote = {Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables the creation of complex structures directly from a computer-aided design (CAD). There are limitations that prevent the technology from realizing its full potential. AM has been criticized for being slow and expensive with limited build size. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a large scale AM system that improves upon each of these areas by more than an order of magnitude. The Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) system directly converts low cost pellets into a large, three-dimensional part at a rate exceeding 25 kg/h. By breaking these traditional barriers, it is possible for polymer AM to penetrate new manufacturing markets.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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