Additive manufacturing involves complex multi-scale and multi-physics mechanisms and phenomena but has the potential to produce low volume near net products with very little waste of raw materials. But understanding the complex physical mechanisms and interactions using today's simulation tools is too expensive.
Benefit: We anticipate that an analytical tool with a strong backing of physics based modeling, one that is built on verification and validation (V&V) of the manufacturing process at multiple scales can help AM shops reliably predict the outcome for a chosen set of operating parameters.
Keywords: Multi-Scale, Multi-Scale, parameters, analytical, Microstructures, homogenization,, multi-physics, Optimization
