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Projects
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) Additive Manufacturing Program (AM) studies the fundamental behaviors of materials under various conditions. From this materials research, MML AM produces additive manufacturing reference standards to support U.S. commerce, competitiveness, and manufacturing.
The following are MML AM projects dedicated to the metrology of AM materials (metals, polymers, ceramics, & biomaterials). Feel free to contact us with questions or opportunities to collaborate.
Metals, Polymers, Ceramics, and Biomaterials
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Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture
Metal additive manufacturing is not used in fatigue and fracture critical applications despite industrial need. The goal of this project is to enable confident use of metal AM in critical applications through several methods. Read more.
Project Leader: Nik Hrabe
Additive Manufacturing of Metals
Additive Manufacturing of Metals (AMOM) and its subprojects enable new pathways for innovative materials design of additively manufactured metal alloys through a foundation of materials science, measurement science, and data science that focuses on localized and in situ measurements of process-structure-property-performance relationships at relevant time and length scales. Read more.
- AMOM Accelerated AM Alloy Design
Project Leaders: Carelyn Campbell & Samantha Webster - AMOM Composition Sensitivity
Project Leader: James Zuback - AMOM Mechanical Characterization
Project Leaders: Lyle Levine & Saadi Habib - AMOM Performance of AM-Processed Alloys
Project Leader: Mark Stoudt
Multifunctional 3D Printable Polymer-Metal Composites
Our goal is to support innovation and fundamental research in additive manufacturing of multifunctional materials with low energy consumption, facilitating the transition from cutting-edge materials science to future AM technologies for multifunctional 3D hierarchical metallic and composite structures. Read more.
Project Leader: Ran Tao
Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series
Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series (AM Bench) provides a continuing series of AM benchmark measurements, challenge problems, and conferences with the primary goal of enabling modelers to test their simulations against rigorous, highly controlled additive manufacturing benchmark measurement data. Read more.
Project Leader: Lyle Levine
Hierarchical Materials
This program seeks to develop fundamental structure-property measurements to support advanced manufacturing of a new class of composites. Our focus is on damage resistant materials with long term performance. Read more.
Project Leader: Zois Tsinas
Multifunctional 3D Printable Polymer-Metal Composites
Our goal is to support innovation and fundamental research in additive manufacturing of multifunctional materials with low energy consumption, facilitating the transition from cutting-edge materials science to future AM technologies for multifunctional 3D hierarchical metallic and composite structures. Read more.
Project Leader: Ran Tao
Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing
NIST's goal is to support innovation in the photopolymer additive manufacturing (PAM) industry by enabling unprecedented high-resolution, mechanically-precise vat photopolymerization via fundamental understanding informed by novel voxel and sub-voxel-scale characterization throughout all major stages of the printing process. Read more.
Project Leaders: Jason Killgore & Callie Higgins
Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology
We develop instrumentation and methodologies for measurement of temperature and stress fields in polymeric materials and their real-time materials responses. We focus on measurements where national needs have been identified, such as plastics recycling and composite curing, and in emerging areas that represent sources of new U.S. manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing. Read more.
- Polymer Material Extrusion
Project Leader: Anthony Kotula - Bioprinting
Project Leader: Anthony Kotula - Dense Suspensions and Thermoset AM
Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala - Polymer AM for Sheet Metal Forming
Project Leader: Jonathan Seppala
Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Test Series
AM Bench provides a continuing series of AM benchmark measurements, challenge problems, and conferences with the primary goal of enabling modelers to test their simulations against rigorous, highly controlled additive manufacturing benchmark measurement data. Read more.
Project Leader: Lyle Levine
Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics
Additive manufacturing of ceramics seeks to facilitate the commercialization of ceramics AM via the concurrent development of new measurement approaches, characterization, and computational methods for ceramic materials. Read more.
Project Leader: Russell Maier
Biofabrication of Tissue Engineered Constructs
In the field of tissue engineering, 3D scaffolds and cells are often combined to yield constructs that are used as therapeutics to repair or restore tissue function in patients. Our project developed a noninvasive, label-free, 3D optical coherence tomography (OCT) method to rapidly image large sample volumes to assess cell viability and distribution within scaffolds. Read more.
Project Leaders: Carl Simon & Greta Babakhanova
Point-of-Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Precision Medicine
Advancements in manufacturing technologies can aid the move from few rigid centralized pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities toward many agile distributed manufacturing and point-of-care (POC) manufacturing facilities to enable personalized and precision medicine. Read more.
Project Leaders: Thomas Forbes & Greg Gillen
Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics
Additive manufacturing of ceramics seeks to facilitate the commercialization of ceramics AM via the concurrent development of new measurement approaches, characterization, and computational methods for ceramic materials. Read more.
Project Leader: Russell Maier
Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing
NIST's goal is to support innovation in the Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) industry by enabling unprecedented high-resolution, mechanically-precise vat photopolymerization via fundamental understanding informed by novel voxel and sub-voxel-scale characterization throughout all major stages of the printing process. Read more.
Project Leaders: Jason Killgore & Callie Higgins
Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology
We develop instrumentation and methodologies for measurement of temperature and stress fields in polymeric materials and their real-time materials responses. We focus on measurements where national needs have been identified, such as plastics recycling and composite curing, and in emerging areas that represent sources of new U.S. manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing. Read more.
Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala
Biofabrication of Tissue Engineered Constructs
In the field of tissue engineering, 3D scaffolds and cells are often combined to yield constructs that are used as therapeutics to repair or restore tissue function in patients. Our project developed a noninvasive, label-free, 3D optical coherence tomography method to rapidly image large sample volumes to assess cell viability and distribution within scaffolds. Read more.
Project Leaders: Carl Simon & Greta Babakhanova
Inkjet Printing and Precision Deposition
The ability to deposit small amounts of material in a highly controllable and precise fashion helps create test materials for trace detection methods for a variety of chemical compounds and aids instrument development. Material microdeposition can enable delivery of chemical compounds for health care purposes, e.g., vaccines, small molecules, and drugs. Read more.
Project Leader: Michael Verkouteren
Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing
NIST's goal is to support innovation in the Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing (PAM) industry by enabling unprecedented high-resolution, mechanically-precise vat photopolymerization via fundamental understanding informed by novel voxel and sub-voxel-scale characterization throughout all major stages of the printing process. Read more.
Project Leaders: Jason Killgore & Callie Higgins
Point-of-Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Precision Medicine
Advancements in manufacturing technologies can aid the move from few rigid centralized pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities toward many agile distributed manufacturing and point-of-care (POC) manufacturing facilities to enable personalized and precision medicine. Read more.
Project Leaders: Thomas Forbes & Greg Gillen
Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics
Additive manufacturing of ceramics seeks to facilitate the commercialization of ceramics AM via the concurrent development of new measurement approaches, characterization, and computational methods for ceramic materials. Read more.
Project Leader: Russell Maier
Additive Manufacturing Fatigue and Fracture
Metal additive manufacturing is not used in fatigue and fracture critical applications despite industrial need. The goal of this project is to enable confident use of metal AM in critical applications through several methods. Read more.
Project Leader: Nik Hrabe
Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology
We develop instrumentation and methodologies for measurement of temperature and stress fields in polymeric materials and their real-time materials responses. We focus on measurements where national needs have been identified, such as plastics recycling and composite curing, and in emerging areas that represent sources of new U.S. manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing. Read more.
Project Leaders: Anthony Kotula & Jonathan Seppala
Contacts
MML Additive Manufacturing Program Coordinator
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(303) 497-5991