| Abstract Scope |
Additive manufacturing promises a major transformation of the production of high economic value metallic materials, enabling innovative, geometrically complex designs with minimal material waste. The overarching challenge is to design alloys that are compatible with the unique additive processing conditions while maintaining material properties sufficient for the challenging environments encountered in energy, space, and nuclear applications. Superalloys with approximately equal parts of Ni and Co offer new design pathways, enabling improved control of solidification and phase transformations that are critical to 3D printing. The role of new experimental, computational and data-centric design tools in discovering new alloys in this domain will be discussed. The unique properties of Co-Ni alloys will be discussed, along with future challenges for the exploration of the Co-Ni design space. |