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Project Category: Design
3020.001 Materials Informed Data Driven Design for Additive Structures (MIDAS) Challenge
March 13, 2023 | Categories:
The purpose of the effort was to challenge the brightest minds from industry and academia by focusing on validating/improving the accuracy of model predictions for metal AM. The goal of the Air...
5531 Additive Manufacturing Phase 2, Application Development & Material Study
February 20, 2023 | Categories:
The project quantitatively evaluated relationships between novel AM-enabled design features and effects on product tolerancing, manufacturability, mechanical performance, and flow performance. The...
5521.002 Advancing DRIVE AM – Aerospace Center
February 20, 2023 | Categories:
The purpose of the project is to meet the goals of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) digital engineering strategy which are to 1) formalize the development, integration, and use of models to...
5523 Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) Engine Part Manufacturing and Testing
December 07, 2022 | Categories:
This project seeks to understand if electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) could be developed into a viable, alternative means of sourcing engine hardware and other ground vehicle sustainment...
5522.002 Demonstration of AM Solutions for Thermally Managed & Shape-Stable Leading Edge
December 02, 2022 | Categories:
The objective of this program is to establish best practices to successfully design and integrate metal lattice structures with a part boundary region such as...
5001.002.002.002 Metal Lattice Design, Testing, and Application Study
September 02, 2022 | Categories:
The objective of this program is to establish best practices to successfully design and integrate metal lattice structures with a part boundary region such as a thin wall or skin material. A...
5523 Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) Engine Part Manufacturing and Testing
May 09, 2022 | Categories:
This project seeks to understand if electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) could be developed into a viable, alternative means of sourcing engine hardware and other ground vehicle sustainment...
5519.001 Metal Additive Manufacturing & Topology Optimization of Self-Propelled Howitzer System Selected Components
December 22, 2021 | Categories:
The objective of this project is to leverage advanced optimization methods, materials, and manufacturing processes to identify SPH parts that can be redesigned for topology optimization and weight...
5001.001.002.003 Development of a Pedigree Informatic System for America Makes Materials
December 22, 2021 | Categories:
The objective of this project was to develop a human-readable, searchable, and extendable XML-based database to systematically archive various types of data from America Makes projects. The...
5510.001 Optimization of Ground Vehicle Components for Weight Reduction
February 16, 2021 | Categories:
The objective of this effort is to demonstrate the advantages of AM through the redesign of a group of Army ground vehicle components to reduce weight. The redesign seeks to meet all other...
5505.001 Topology Optimized Reflective Optics (TORO) Additive for eXtreme Improvements in Optical Mounts (AXIOM)
January 09, 2023 | Categories:
In moving from a baseline design of a traditionally manufactured optical mirror/mount assembly to an exotic AM design enabled by advances in nTopology (nTop) Platform, the TORO team established...
3018 DoD ACADEMI Expansion Initiative
December 04, 2018 | Categories:
The objective of this project is to modify and expand the existing course offering for the ACADEMI program around DoD identified gaps in its advanced manufacturing education portfolio,...
