Abstract
The Air Force Research Laboratory Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge series launched in November 2019 was devised as a means to assess the Additive Manufacturing modeling community’s ability to predict, in a locally resolved fashion, details of the structure and subsequent mechanical performance of metallic materials fabricated with a laser powder bed fusion process. This communication gives a general overview of the challenge series implementation, results, and workshop.
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The Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory funded this work. The MDF work was performed under the following financial assistance award 70NANB19H005 from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology as part of the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD).
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Cox, M.E., Schwalbach, E.J., Blaiszik, B.J. et al. AFRL Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge Series: Overview. Integr Mater Manuf Innov 10, 125–128 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-021-00215-6
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