August 28, 2020
Intact Solutions announces that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded Intact Solutions a Phase II SBIR project for direct performance evaluation of additive manufacturing process plans.
In Phase I of the project, Intact Solutions successfully demonstrated the feasibility of performing accurate structural simulation directly from additive manufacturing plans while querying material information directly from NIST’s AMMD. This was achieved by extending Intact Solutions’ moment-based interoperable simulation technology that incorporates material properties through a combination of analytical, experimental, and data-driven methods.
Based on these results, in Phase II of the project, Intact Solutions will develop a novel Part-Scale Process–Structure–Property–Performance (PSPP) architecture and implement a robust commercial grade system for performance prediction of AM parts. The developed system will support adaptive exploration of process and design spaces through direct integration with AM material databases, as well as other empirical and simulated data. As such, the system can be used to evaluate, compare, and optimize additive manufacturing process plans, leading to significant savings in costs and time, as well as improved performance of manufactured components.