| Scope |
Science and engineering work symbiotically to push the state of the art; this has been particularly evident in additive manufacturing (AM) of metals. Advancements in metal AM have seen its implementation on a broad range of products in medical, aerospace, and automotive. However, the full promise and usage of the technology is limited by its costly and lengthy qualification costs, particularly within aerospace. Methods used to qualify traditional materials and processes struggle to scale to encompass the complexity of the process. To break out of this morass, new qualification methods suited to the AM process are needed. This will take novel mechanistic approaches, in-situ sensors, and analysis methods combined with an intimate knowledge of the requirements of qualification. These solutions require deep partnership between industry and academia to solve. However, to date, there has been an uneven pairing of knowledge, leading to industry making decisions from lagging information or academia studying the wrong aspect of the problem. This symposium will bring leader experts from across the aerospace industry and academia together to discuss leading developments, challenges, and needs within metal AM. These topics will range from certification requirements, ab-initio modeling, in-situ inspection, statistical process control, standardization, risk based qualification, and perspectives on challenges. The outcome from this symposium will be to give industry a clear view of novel tools to apply and for academia, it will illustrate the areas of need. |