| Abstract Scope |
In recent decade, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have transitioned from rapid prototyping tools to effective manufacturing approaches for producing end-use commercial components in the medical, aerospace, automobile, energy industries, among many others. Despite the early success of metal AM in industry, there are still substantial R&D efforts in academia and government labs on tackling the most fundamental issues. In particularly, synchrotron facilities provide multi-dimensional characterizations that examine the dynamic evolution of materials structures with dimensional and the temporal resolutions key to metal AM processes. Integrating the unique capabilities of synchrotron x-ray techniques and sophisticated operando systems are enabling the industry to improve numerical models, interrogate critical materials problems, particularly those associated with processing under far-from-equilibrium conditions, as well as prediction and management of defects and rare events. Here, I will present a brief overview of the industrial applications of operando synchrotron x-ray techniques at the Advanced Photon Source. |