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Project Category: Design
5531 Additive Manufacturing Phase 2, Application Development & Material Study
February 20, 2023
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
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...
5522.002 High-Temperature Applications Enabling AM: Demonstrate Technical Solutions for Thermally Managed & Shape-Stable Leading Edge
December 02, 2022
The project aims to develop an integrated thermal management solution for high heat flux tolerant leading-edge designs that are broadly applicable to different high-temperature platforms. The...
5001.002.002.002 Metal Lattice Design, Testing, and Application Study
September 02, 2022
The objective of this program was 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
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
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
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
The objective of this effort was to demonstrate the advantages of AM through the redesign of a group of Army ground vehicle components to reduce weight. The redesigned parts met all other...
5505.001 Topology Optimized Reflective Optics (TORO) Additive for eXtreme Improvements in Optical Mounts (AXIOM)
January 09, 2023
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...
4004 Sparse-Build Rapid Tooling by Fused Deposition Modeling for Composite Manufacturing & Hydroforming
June 22, 2017
FDM is a proven technology in additive manufacturing that holds great promise for fabricating tooling components used in composites manufacturing and sheet metal forming. This study was aimed at...
4021 Developing Topology Optimization Tools that Enable Efficient Design of AM Cellular Structures
June 22, 2017
The goal of this project was to develop robust software for design and optimization of AM structural designs based on cellular structures. The outcome of this project not only enabled efficient...
4026 Development of Distortion Prediction & Compensation Methods for Metal Powder-Bed AM
June 22, 2017
The key objective of this project was to validate and help mature tools for simulating distortion in powder bed AM with the anticipated outcome of reducing the number of iterations typically...
