Modeling of additive manufacturing processes for metals: Challenges and opportunities

• Published in: Current opinion in solid state & materials science Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 198 - 206
• Main Authors: Francois, M.M., Sun, A., King, W.E., Henson, N.J., Tourret, D., Bronkhorst, C.A., Carlson, N.N., Newman, C.K., Haut, T., Bakosi, J., Gibbs, J.W., Livescu, V., Vander Wiel, S.A., Clarke, A.J., Schraad, M.W., Blacker, T., Lim, H., Rodgers, T., Owen, S., Abdeljawad, F., Madison, J., Anderson, A.T., Fattebert, J-L., Ferencz, R.M., Hodge, N.E., Khairallah, S.A., Walton, O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2017; Elsevier
• Subjects: additive manufacturing; MATERIALS SCIENCE
• ISSN: 1359-0286
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2016.12.001

•This article focuses on reviewing modeling and simulation effort in metal additive manufacturing taking places at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories.•An integrated computational approach from process-structure-properties-performance is necessary to ultimately enable engineering and optimization to specific performance requirements.•Models and simulation tools from processing to performance are being developed at multiple lengths scales to account for the complex structure of additive manufactured metals and to understand their performance response.