Research Vision: Advanced Manufacturing for Sustainable Solutions in the 21st Century
Research Vision: Advanced Manufacturing for Sustainable Solutions in the 21st Century
Additive Manufacturing:
1. Fused deposition modeling/fabrication and SLA based manufacturing:
i) Custom Equipment/tool design for functional materials printing
ii) Printing and mechanical/chemical/microstructural characterization to investigate process parameters-structure-property relationship
2. Selective laser melting: i) Process parameters optimization and printing of advanced high-temperature engine components ii) Process parameters optimizations for Bio-compatible materials, iii) New functional materials design using laser-assisted manufacturing
3. Direct Energy deposition: i) Ultra high-temperature materials manufacturing for gas turbines, ii) Analytical/semi-empirical model development
Printing of Supercritical Gas Turbines Rotors
Understanding Phenomena at Bulk to Nano-scale:
1. In-situ TEM/SEM study: To reveal micro/nano-scale phenomena in additive manufactured materials under thermal and mechanical strain field
2. Classical Molecular Dynamics simulations:
i) Nanomechanics of 3D printed Nanomaterials and nanocomposities: Tensile, compressive, bending, and Indentation testing
ii) Ultra-fast laser materials interactions from MD simulation
iii) Materials processing/radiation simulation at the nanoscale
3. Bulk scale: Mechanical, thermal, coupled thermo-electric phenomena
FDM, LPBF, DED
LPBF