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Anisotropy In Impact Toughness Of Powder Bed Fused Aisi 304l Stainless Steel, Sreekar Karnati, Atoosa Khiabhani, Aaron Flood, Frank W. Liou, Joseph William Newkirk Dec 2021

Anisotropy In Impact Toughness Of Powder Bed Fused Aisi 304l Stainless Steel, Sreekar Karnati, Atoosa Khiabhani, Aaron Flood, Frank W. Liou, Joseph William Newkirk

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The current effort involved investigation into the anisotropy of AISI 304L fabricated through laser powder bed fusion. Charpy V‐notch specimens made from material fabricated at three different build orientations were tested and analyzed. A statistically significant difference among the toughness values indicates the presence of anisotropy within the additively manufactured material. While the lowest toughness was found in vertically built specimens, the horizontal specimens were found to exhibit the highest toughness. From the fracture surfaces, an atypical mode of failure was observed. Exclusive crack propagation along the interlayer track boundaries was observed. The toughness variation correlated with the ease of …


Experimental Investigation Of Additive Manufacturing Of Continuous Carbon Fiber Composites With Multifunctional Electro-Tensile Properties, Ritesh Ghimire, Frank W. Liou Nov 2021

Experimental Investigation Of Additive Manufacturing Of Continuous Carbon Fiber Composites With Multifunctional Electro-Tensile Properties, Ritesh Ghimire, Frank W. Liou

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Manufacturing processes for monofunctional and multifunctional materials vary depending on the design optimization. Multifunctional continuous carbon fiber composites provide great potential in achieving coupled structural and electrical properties for their applications in aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, and spacecraft. Proper optimization of tensile and electrical properties offers benefits early in the design and continuous operational safety phases to obtain coupled multifunctional properties. In this paper, fused filament fabrication additive manufacturing (AM) technique was used to fabricate continuous carbon fiber solid laminated composites test coupons. The proposed new method characterizes the electrical conductivity's coupled effects on the tensile properties, including the failure …


Additive Manufacturing Of Stainless Steel -- Copper Functionally Graded Materials Via Inconel 718 Interlayer, Xinchang Zhang, Lan Li, Frank W. Liou Nov 2021

Additive Manufacturing Of Stainless Steel -- Copper Functionally Graded Materials Via Inconel 718 Interlayer, Xinchang Zhang, Lan Li, Frank W. Liou

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The joining of dissimilar materials is becoming increasingly prevalent to integrate different material properties to enhance design flexibility and overall performance. This study introduced an innovative approach to additively manufacture copper on 316L stainless steel (SS316L) via Inconel 718 interlayers using directed energy deposition (DED). The novel multi-material structure was studied both experimentally and theoretically. The microstructure, tensile properties, microhardness, and thermal performance of the structure were characterized. Residual stress distribution over the structure was revealed by experimental-validated numerical modeling. The result exhibits that defect-free structures with excellent interfacial bonding can be achieved by introducing Inconel 718 interlayers. The bonding …


A Novel Laser-Aided Machining And Polishing Process For Additive Manufacturing Materials With Multiple Endmill Emulating Scan Patterns, Mohammad Masud Parvez, Sahil Patel, Sriram Praneeth Isanaka, Frank W. Liou Oct 2021

A Novel Laser-Aided Machining And Polishing Process For Additive Manufacturing Materials With Multiple Endmill Emulating Scan Patterns, Mohammad Masud Parvez, Sahil Patel, Sriram Praneeth Isanaka, Frank W. Liou

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In additive manufacturing (AM), the surface roughness of the deposited parts remains significantly higher than the admissible range for most applications. Additionally, the surface topography of AM parts exhibits waviness profiles between tracks and layers. Therefore, post-processing is indispensable to improve surface quality. Laser-aided machining and polishing can be effective surface improvement processes that can be used due to their availability as the primary energy sources in many metal AM processes. While the initial roughness and waviness of the surface of most AM parts are very high, to achieve dimensional accuracy and minimize roughness, a high input energy density is …


A Kinematic Error Controller For Real-Time Kinematic Error Correction Of Industrial Robots, Mitchell R. Woodside, Joseph Fischer, Patrick Bazzoli, Douglas A. Bristow, Robert G. Landers Jun 2021

A Kinematic Error Controller For Real-Time Kinematic Error Correction Of Industrial Robots, Mitchell R. Woodside, Joseph Fischer, Patrick Bazzoli, Douglas A. Bristow, Robert G. Landers

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Industrial robots are being used more and more for manufacturing applications that require accuracy beyond what can be obtained from joint measurement. While offline calibration techniques such as volumetric error compensation can be used to correct robot kinematic error, these methods are unable to compensate for robot deformations caused by changing tool loads during the manufacturing operation. This paper explores the use of a real-time robot kinematic error compensation technique where an external high-precision feedback sensor (in this case a laser tracker) directly measures the robot kinematic error and corrections are implemented during processing. A robot kinematic error model is …


Three-Dimensional Laser-Assisted Printing Of Structures From Nanoparticles, Heng Pan, Chinmoy Podder, Wan Shou, Xiaowei Yu Jun 2021

Three-Dimensional Laser-Assisted Printing Of Structures From Nanoparticles, Heng Pan, Chinmoy Podder, Wan Shou, Xiaowei Yu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A method for manufacturing a component comprising bombarding nanoparticles in a dispersion with a laser to transform the ligand and cause the nanoparticles to drop out of the dispersion and deposit onto a substrate; and bombarding additional nanoparticles in the dispersion with the laser to transform the ligand and cause the nanoparticles to drop out of the dispersion and deposit onto the nanoparticles previously deposited out of the dispersion.


Oxidation Polymerization Additive Manufacturing, Jonghyun Park, Tazdik Patwary Plateau, Hiep Pham Apr 2021

Oxidation Polymerization Additive Manufacturing, Jonghyun Park, Tazdik Patwary Plateau, Hiep Pham

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Various processes for producing three dimensional electrically conductive polymer structures, such as three dimensional structures of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), are described as well as materials produced by these processes.