Projects
5001.003.001.001 Surface Finish Design Guide for Additive Manufacturing (AM) Heat Exchangers
August 29, 2023
The purpose of the project was to develop a design guide for additive manufactured (AM) heat exchangers with complex internal geometries that incorporated surface roughness correction factors for... Read More
5001.003.001.003 AM Materials Safety Training
August 28, 2023
The objective of this work was to create and deliver training materials that facilitated the quick training of existing and future experts on the lifecycle of AM... Read More
5001.003.002.004 – Rapid Print Characterization for Machine Qualification and Equivalency
August 22, 2023
The objective of this project is to develop streamlined post-part characterization and in-situ data monitoring processes that can rapidly inform machine variation and process equivalency across... Read More
5527.001 SIMBA Chain Additive with Knowledge (AWK)
August 21, 2023
The goals of the project were summarized according to three main objectives. The first of these was matching a part to a viable additive method for part production. The next was leveraging machine... Read More
5532.001 Gradient Alloy Transition Development 2 (GRATD 2) Program
August 21, 2023
This project leverages the GRATD1 program to fabricate and test shape features relevant to aerospace systems to operate in extreme aerothermal environments. It focuses on leading-edge structures... Read More
5542.005 Advance Manufacturing of High Temperature Nozzle Materials
August 17, 2023
The overall objective of this project is to identify two low-cost, domestic material supply chains that have demonstrated robust technical performance and manufacturability for solid rocket... Read More
5001.003.002.001 Process, Thermal, Structure, Property Model for Ti64Built with DED-LB
August 14, 2023
The purpose of this program was to develop a process, thermal, structure property (PTSP) model for single-pass Ti64 wall built with laser blown-powder directed energy deposition (DED-LB) that... Read More
5550 Common Additive Manufacturing Qualification Template (CAM-QT)
August 09, 2023
The objective of this project is to document the qualification requirements of in-service metal AM parts accepted by design authorities of three engine OEMs as part of their individual... Read More
5540.001 – Additive Manufacturing Casting Replacement Optimization (AMCRO) – Heat Treating and Chemistry
August 07, 2023
The objective of this effort was to develop and demonstrate optimized wire-arc directed energy deposition (DED) process and post-process heat-treating procedures to replace HY-80 steel castings.... Read More
5540.002 – Development & Transition of HY80 Steel for Qualification to NAVSEA WIRE-DED Tech Pub
August 07, 2023
Wire-Arc DED is capable of flexibly printing large parts at high deposition rates; coupled with advanced integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) modeling tools (e.g., thermodynamic,... Read More
5545.001 NAVSEA – Edison Welding Institute AM Qualification
August 03, 2023
The objective of this project was to provide NAVSEA with test samples and process qualification test reports (PQTRs) that can be used to develop qualification requirements and procedures for laser... Read More
5001.001.002.004 – Characterization of Metal AM Process Surface Features
July 24, 2023
The objective of the project was to identify which additive manufacturing (AM) sensing modalities are best suited to quantify L-PBF surface roughness. Furthermore, the focus of this program was to... Read More