Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Within the rapidly growing field of Additive Manufacturing (AM), the ability to print fully dense metal parts has had a significant impact on the aerospace and biomedical industries, with growing influence in the automotive and other industry sectors. Provides an overview of different metal 3D printing processes, and an in-depth look at the most widely used one: the laser powder bed fusion process. For this process, the course is divided into 4 main modules: process development (hands-on metal 3D printing); properties (characterization and testing); design for metal AM (use of design and build preparation software); and process simulation (use of simulation software). Familiarity with ANSYS is preferred, but due to the very specific and applied nature of this class, it is not required. Students need access to ANSYS either from their own laptops or by using shared computing resources in labs, and they also need to spend time in the Innovation Hub on the Polytechnic campus building and characterizing 3D printed parts.