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Materials Science and Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology

2023

Additive manufacturing

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Fast-, Light-Cured Scintillating Plastic For 3d-Printing Applications, Brian G. Frandsen, Michael Febbraro, Thomas Ruland, Theodore W. Stephens, Paul A. Hausladen, Juan J. Manfredi, James E. Bevins Mar 2023

Fast-, Light-Cured Scintillating Plastic For 3d-Printing Applications, Brian G. Frandsen, Michael Febbraro, Thomas Ruland, Theodore W. Stephens, Paul A. Hausladen, Juan J. Manfredi, James E. Bevins

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Additive manufacturing techniques enable a wide range of possibilities for novel radiation detectors spanning simple to highly complex geometries, multi-material composites, and metamaterials that are either impossible or cost prohibitive to produce using conventional methods. The present work identifies a set of promising formulations of photocurable scintillator resins capable of neutron-gamma pulse shape discrimination (PSD) to support the additive manufacturing of fast neutron detectors. The development of these resins utilizes a step-by-step, trial-and-error approach to identify different monomer and cross-linker combinations that meet the requirements for 3D printing followed by a 2-level factorial parameter study to optimize the radiation detection …


Laser Powder Bed Fusion Of Molybdenum And Mo-0.1sic Studied By Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy And Electron Backscatter Diffraction Method, Nathan E. Ellsworth, Joshua R. Machacek, Ryan A. Kemnitz, Cayla C. Eckley, Brianna M. Sexton, Joel S. Gearhart, Larry W. Burggraf Feb 2023

Laser Powder Bed Fusion Of Molybdenum And Mo-0.1sic Studied By Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy And Electron Backscatter Diffraction Method, Nathan E. Ellsworth, Joshua R. Machacek, Ryan A. Kemnitz, Cayla C. Eckley, Brianna M. Sexton, Joel S. Gearhart, Larry W. Burggraf

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Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) has been used for the first time to investigate the microstructure of additively manufactured molybdenum. Despite the wide applicability of positron annihilation spectroscopy techniques to the defect analysis of metals, they have only been used sparingly to monitor the microstructural evolution of additively manufactured metals. Molybdenum and molybdenum with a dilute addition (0.1 wt%) of nano-sized silicon carbide, prepared via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) at four different scan speeds: 100, 200, 400, and 800 mm/s, were studied by PALS and compared with electron backscatter diffraction analysis. The aim of this study was to clarify …