About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Keynote Session
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| Presentation Title |
Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing: Recipe for Disaster or the Saviour of AM? |
| Author(s) |
Adam T. Clare |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Adam T. Clare |
| Abstract Scope |
The advent of rapid prototyping (later to become 3D printing and additive manufacturing) offered geometric freedoms in part design which could not be achieved prior. Nested features across length scales opened new opportunities in the high value industries and turned the manufacturing research community on to AM. Some 40 years later not all AM promises have been kept. Material integrity persists as the most fundamental limitation to the wider adoption of this family of technologies. Unperturbed by failings in solving basic problems, the research community continues to explore ever more complex materials and combinations thereof.
In this talk we will explore the opportunities and literature around multi-metal 3D printing and identify opportunities for industrial exploitation. We will review work undertaken at UBC in modelling process and resulting material behaviour during complex energy-material interactions. This will provide opportunity to explore avenues (successful and otherwise) for printing multiple materials dating back to first attempts using basic laser cladding apparatus in my team.
Should time allow the speaker will offer an overview of the Additive Manufacturing Journal and offer some guidance for authors who are in the process of manuscript preparation. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Definite: None Selected |