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Despite the tremendous hype around metal additive manufacturing (3d printing), it remains a very niche process amongst a multitude of widely adopted metal manufacturing solutions. Digital Alloys Joule Printing(TM) technology solves these limitations including speed, cost, and quality. Alex Huckstepp, VP Business Development at Digital Alloys, will discuss the current metal printing technology landscape and explain how radically simple Joule Printing(TM) enables manufacturers to utilize metal AM in real scale production applications.
Alex has worked with some of the world’s most innovative manufacturers to help them develop additive manufacturing strategies, validate applications, and implement 3D printing solutions in production. Prior to joining Digital Alloys, he spent five years at leading polymer 3D printing companies Carbon (where he lead the Global Automotive Sales team) and Stratasys. Alex has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Product Development Engineering from the University of Southern California.
We are also please to have a Dessert Presentation: "Enhancing Feedstock Powder for Additive Manufacturing Applications" by Caitlin Walde Gas-atomized metallic powders are commonly used as feedstock in certain additive manufacturing processes. Research has shown that the chemistry and microstructural properties of the feedstock powder significantly affect the properties of the consolidated material. Understanding the powder characteristics before use in additive manufacturing processes can lead to optimization of properties of the final part. Additionally, thermally treating powders prior to consolidation affects the characteristics and microstructural evolution of the powder. This work highlights thermal treatments for aluminum alloys, guided by thermodynamic and kinetic modeling. Light microscopy, electron microscopy, and hardness were used to evaluate each condition in both two- and three-dimensions.
Caitlin is a 3 rd year PhD student in the Material Science and Engineering program at WPI, anticipating matriculation in December 2018. She works with feedstock powders for additive manufacturing processes, primarily aluminum alloy powders for the cold spray process. She is working to optimize properties of commercially available powders using a heat treatment and performs extensive characterization of the different conditions using SEM, TEM, FIB, EDS, EBSD, and DSC, in both 2D and 3D.
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