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2021 William P. Slichter Award

AWARD CITATION

The group is recognized for conceiving, organizing, and conducting AM-Bench, the Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series, which allows industry to validate software codes used to simulate and predict complex additive manufacturing processes.  Driven by a program of industry engagement, the team built complex metal and polymer parts using additive manufacturing under real-world conditions of relevance to multiple industries.  These parts, exquisitely characterized with innovative measurement methods, serve as benchmarks to validate models and simulations used to guide the manufacturing process.  This methodology established by the AM-Bench team is now widely used to understand and improve additive manufacturing in numerous applications.

GROUP AWARD

Lyle Levine

Physicist
Material Measurement Laboratory

Brandon Lane

Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory, Intelligent Systems Division, Production Systems Group

Kalman Migler

Physicist
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division

Shawn Moylan

Supervisory Mechanical Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Mark Stoudt

Materials Research Engineer
Material Measurement Laboratory

Maureen Williams

Mechanical Engineer
Material Measurement Laboratory

Jonathan Seppala

Chemical Engineer
Material Measurement Laboratory

Thien Phan

Materials Research Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Ho Yeung

Electronics Engineer
Engineering Laboratory

Sandra Young

Physical Science Technician
Material Measurement Laboratory