3 credits
Spring 2025 Distance Learning Lecture Upper Division
The course takes an MSE approach to additive manufacturing, integrating deposition processing, powder processing, and solidification processing principles in the full range of AM process configurations and kinematics. The overarching goal is to learn how microstructure development, and thus the resulting material properties, are controlled by the interaction of physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical phenomena in the shaping of materials by additive processing. All the main classes of materials and AM processes are covered. Additional objectives are to quantitatively analyze the capabilities and limitations of AM relative to established commercial shaping processes; and to critically analyze the AM research literature.
Learning Outcomes1Identify the generic elements of any additive manufacturing process.
2Identify and understand the main unit materials process involved and be able to predict how processing parameter will change resulting material structure and properties.
3Relate additive processing to characteristic microstructure features and defects.
4Interpret standards and specifications for processing and properties produced by the different additive manufacturing processes.
5Distinguish quantitatively between the different additive manufacturing processes in terms of their shaping capability compared to traditional bulk shaping processes.
6Identify AM processing defects and their origins in particular processing parameters
7Specify an optimum AM process for a particular material, component and service conditions.
8Explain properties variability and anisotropy in AM products in terms of processing constraints.
9Analyze critically the state of research on a particular current topic in additive manufacturing.
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