Introduction

This course will explore polymeric and particulate materials in the context of processes and applications associated with additive manufacturing, popularly referred to as 3D Printing.

Metals, ceramics, polymers and composites can all be processed using additive manufacturing technologies. This course will guide students to undertake self-directed studies from popular, commercial and refereed research publications contributing to insights into materials-process-design interactions in additive manufacturing.

The overarching course learning outcome will be to understand the properties and processing of the following material systems used in additive manufacturing:

(1) Thermoplastics

(2) Reactive polymers

(3) Metals

(4) Ceramics

This content is from the Materials for AM course taught by Prof. Sundar V. Atre, Endowed Chair of Manufacturing & Materials at the University of Louisville (3dmaterials.us).

Overview of research focussed on specific materials were analyzed and presented by current and former graduate students from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Louisville.

This course builds from an online course providing an introduction to additive manufacturing that can be found at 3dprinting.scipitutors.com

Learnings from this course were incorporated into product design and analyzed for market potential at the UofL 3D Printing Business Incubator.