DON'T MISS THE 2022 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING BENCHMARK TEST SERIES AND CONFERENCE

ABSTRACT

The explosive growth of additive manufacturing (AM) is matched by an equally strong push in research and development to support those applications. The relative complexity of these manufacturing processes and the materials they generate still elicit a great need for better understanding of the interactions between the fabrication parameters and the material development and evolution. Complex problems require complex tools, and with the boom in AM, the development of computational models and simulations to predict all aspects of these processes has grown in parallel. Incredible diversity exists in the types of models, the level of physical or computational complexity, the range of materials, and applications. But all require something similar input of or reference to relevant physical values achieved through accurate measurements. Measurements are essential, not just in the development of AM models, but in the testing and validation of their predictions. To address this gap, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated the Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM-Bench), where metrologists and AM modelers compare computational predictions to an array of measurements designed and dedicated to advancing AM modeling.