| Abstract Scope |
The past decade has seen rapid and widespread adoption of additive manufacturing technology at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. This talk focuses on the establishment of AM capabilities at JPL and subsequent infusion opportunities in spacecraft, with particular emphasis on alloy development, prototyping, testing, and processing and property relationships. AM is an attractive capability for infusion into spacecraft, especially for complex part designs, multifunctional materials, extreme environment materials, hardware with reduced cost and schedule, and low mass structural parts. JPL now has a large team of scientists, engineers and technologists working in AM with a subset working in alloy development. Some of the AM research topics that will be covered in this talk include functionally graded metals, bulk metallic glasses, metal-matrix composites, self-hammering excavating tools, graded dielectric antennas, and multi-functional materials. |