ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Accelerated Additive Manufacturing: Digital Discovery of a New Process Generation
Additive Manufacturing (AM) by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) has the potential to revolutionize future product development, design and supply chains. Since the underlying multi-scale physics are not well understood, its potential can presently not be exploited. Sub-optimal process conditions lead to severe defects on different scales, rendering parts unsuitable for use. Critically, known regimes of stable processing go along with very low built rates, i.e., very high costs compared to other processes. This limits LPBF to selected high value applications such as medical devices but prohibits applications in mass production where it otherwise could allow for entirely new technologies.…
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