Additive Manufacturing of Materials
MSE56800
Credit Hours:
3Learning Objective:
Apply the general materials processing approach to additive manufacturing for ceramics, metals, and polymers and their composites.Description:
The course takes an MSE approach to additive manufacturing (AM), integrating deposition processing, powder processing, and solidification processing principles in the full range of AM processes. The overarching goal is to learn how to microstructure development, and thus the resulting material properties, are controlled by the interaction of physical, chemical, thermal and mechanical phenomena in the shaping of materials by additive processing. All the main classes of materials and AM processes are covered. Additional objectives are to quantitatively analyze the capabilities and limitations of AM relative to established commercial shaping processes; and to critically analyze the AM research literature.
Topics Covered:
Introduction to materials processing and manufacturing; Unified aspects of Additive Manufacturing (AM); Main AM process classes: vat photopolymerization, extrusion, jet printing, binder jetting, powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition; Comparative processing, including AM process design, selection and applications. Supporting fundamentals underpinning the AM unit processes will include: polymerization, rheology of melts, slurries and pastes, powder characterization and processing, focused-beam energy sources and their interaction with materials, and solidification of alloys. Relationships between microstructure development and resulting properties are stressed throughout.Prerequisites:
An introductory course in engineering materials and/or manufacturing processes or permission of instructor.Applied / Theory:
50 / 50Exams:
Two midterm exams and comprehensive final exam through Gradescope via Brightspace.Textbooks:
The primary textbook is Gibson, Rosen, Stucker, and Khorasani, Additive Manufacturing Technologies, 3rd Edition, Springer Nature Switzerland AG (2021). This text and other recommended resources are available electronically through the Purdue library. No textbook purchase is required for this course.Computer Requirements:
Must have the ability to open PDF files (either Adobe or Preview {mac})