Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: Certification is the act of saying (certifying) that a product meets the requirements it was produced against. Certification can cover a wide range of products in an…
Figure 5.1 An engine specialist checks the fit of a 3D-printed valve onboard the littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis. The ship is 115 meters (378 feet long), with a typical crew of about 75 people, and carries several helicopters, surface vessels, and…
In summary, it is important to note AM design terminology and how they apply to product benefits. As a company shifts from a strategy of direct part conversion to DfAM, more value is driven into the product in terms of…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: As stated previously, a new technology does not come without its caveats. Successful designs in AM acknowledge and address both technical and non-technical risks to implementation. This…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: AM provides a vast amount of design and manufacturing opportunities, and there is an abundance of tools and programs to help. But there is much development yet…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: AM Design Workflow Process Steps There are a number of steps required to move from having an idea to printing an AM part and readying it for…
Figure 4.1 A student analyzes a component physically and using CAD software in the The UC Davis Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine facility. (credit: UC Davis College of Engineering/Flickr CC BY 2.0) Chapter Outline 4.1 Design Approach 4.2 Design Optimization: Implementation while considering build…
It is clear that there are many materials available for AM, but in the larger world of engineered materials used in final applications, only a few dozen materials are regularly deployed for long-use AM components. This gap provides a tremendous…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: Ceramics represent one of the most challenging and least widely-developed category of engineered AM materials. Because conventional ceramic processing uses powders, feedstocks are widely available. The most…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, students will be able to: Aluminum Alloys Currently, the overwhelming use of aluminum alloys in AM is for L-PBF, with DED, ME, MJ, CS, and SL all seeing their initial introductions. The…