Abstract Scope |
Metals Additive Manufacturing (MAM) has been described as the best thing that has happened to metallurgy in decades because it offers the ability to build bulk parts with high cooling rates up to 10^6/s. This opens up the space to introduce new or modified alloy compositions. New alloys, however, lack the experience base that designers can trust to establish, say, minimum property values on which qualification and certification (Q&C) can be based. This presentation will discuss a general scheme of materials maturity levels with a progression in terms of properties of interest, testing, databasing and especially computational modeling that advances developments of new materials for MAM from concepts to being fully integrated into design. |