CHE 655 Processing for Additive Manufacturing
This course focuses on the principal, commercially-realized AM processes and on the processing and materials science underlying them.
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is the process of building objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer. Dozens of AM processes have been developed over the past 40 years. Their use has evolved from rapid fabrication of models and prototypes to custom production of hearing aids and athletic shoes to reliable manufacture of jet engine fuel nozzles and turbine blades. This course focuses on the principal, commercially-realized AM processes and on the processing and materials science underlying them. Topics include the physics and chemistry of photopolymerization, material extrusion, polymer laser sintering and metal laser melting and the structure and properties of the materials produced by these processes.