Metal Additive Manufacturing

Advancing the material discovery for metal additive manufacturing (AM) to create sustainable and cleaner manufacturing solutions for high value metal products.

Areas of Research:

• Alloy formulation development using/for metal AM
• Machine-learning accelerated metallic materials discovery using metal AM
• High performance magnetic materials development using metal AM
• Metal powder synthesis and production for metal AM
• Metal waste recycling for metal AM

Capabilities

1. Rapid alloy prototyping using powder bed selective laser melting

Technology overview and benefits

• Rapid screening of alloy compositions
  
• High throughput characterization and performance evaluation

2. In-situ alloy development using laser engineering net shaping

• In-situ alloying using 4 hopper powder blow laser melting system
  
• Rapid fabrication of testing coupons for mechanical performance evaluation

3. Powder synthesis and production

• Powder synthesis and Production system to support the metal AM development
  
• Customized low-volume powder synthesis

4. Magnetic alloy and prototyping

• Magnetic alloy development using metal AM
  
• 3D printing of magnetic components for electrification

Applicable Industries

• Precision Engineering
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Construction

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