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EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 26, 2017 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 26, 2017 |
| Award Number: | 1650461 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Prakash Balan
pbalan@nsf.gov (703)292-5341 EEC Division of Engineering Education and Centers ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | February 1, 2017 |
| End Date: | September 30, 2018 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $15,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $15,000.00 |
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926 DALNEY ST NW ATLANTA GA US 30318-6395 (404)894-4819 |
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225 North Avenue Atlanta GA US 30332-0405 |
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| NSF Program(s): | IUCRC-Indust-Univ Coop Res Ctr |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
Additive manufacturing technologies are widely used in a variety of industries including consumer products, automotive, medical, aerospace, and machinery. The additive manufacturing industry exceeds $5 billion in 2015 and is expected to top $20 billion within the next five years. It has become an extremely competitive area of research in countries around the world. To ensure US' global leadership in this emerging field originated from the US, academic partners (currently including Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), University of Connecticut (UConn), and University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML)) have come together to create the Center for Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D). SHAP3D will serve the diverse interests of industry, government, and academia by addressing fundamental research challenges to meet the commercial needs of industry for 3D printing of heterogeneous materials. SHAP3D will develop the critical and necessary insight into fundamental processing-structure-property relationships to predict and control the integration of diverse materials for 3D printing. The work of SHAP3D will be critical as the industry adopts 3D printing for product prototyping, tooling, and higher volume manufacturing with three specific economic outcomes. First, the Center will pursue higher performance materials and composites that enable diverse and lighter weight products to minimize total life cycle costs and environmental footprint. Second, in order to minimize processing costs, the Center will explore more optimal and parallel processes to more quickly print products with higher resolution. Third, SHAP3D will investigate interfacial physics and design concepts for integrating dissimilar materials to facilitate multi-functional components/products, broaden the number of 3D printed applications, and increase market size. Active collaboration with industry partners will ensure relevance to education and training of the future workforce to expedite the adoption and integration of 3D printing methods into manufacturing processes. The three institutions will create a scholarship fund specifically for the recruitment of diverse graduate students. A portion of this scholarship fund will be directed to underrepresented students from minority serving institutions, including community colleges. Educational programs associated with this IUCRC target undergraduate and graduate students at GT and local community colleges, K-12 students, and industry professionals. The GT site will work closely with GT?s Center for Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED) graduate fellow program to enhance diversity. Integration of materials research and education will be developed in collaboration with partners, such as Institute of Materials, GT Manufacturing Institute, and GT Polymer Network. The GT site will also work closely with the Research Experience for Student Veterans in Advanced Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship (REVAMP) REU site to train undergraduate students in fundamental principles of advanced manufacturing, with a focus on veterans and minority students. In addition, the GT site will disseminate the research results to K6-12 students through school teachers in metro Atlanta area by NSF research experience for teacher (RET) program.
The SHAP3D Center will perform research to understand the synthesis, properties, and processing of heterogeneous materials for integration into complex, additively manufactured products. The work SHAP3D envisions would encompass many different additive printing methods, such as fused deposition modeling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), stereolithography (SLA), poly/ink jet, and other additive approaches. The Center will perform fundamental material modeling and processing research to establish and translate validated materials and processes to students and practitioners. The proposed center will enable: (i) the rational design and creation of new material feedstocks and, (ii) the understanding of material properties, protocols, and design rules that must be characterized and developed to optimize the process and predict the properties of products and parts created from multiple polymer materials (e.g., different constituent materials, fillers/additives, and interfaces). GT has extensive expertise and longstanding experience in manufacturing, materials, electronics design and packaging, device fabrication and characterization, and biomedicine. GT will draw on a diverse team of faculty from Mechanical, Materials, Industrial, Chemical, Electrical Engineering Schools. Faculty members from this team will make contributions to the next generation of 3D printed functional multi-materials for functional products with research focused on materials, processes, design, and simulation.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The goal of this planning grant was to create a Phase I I/UCRC, the Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D), with a topical focus of additive manufacturing (i.e., 3D printing), and its core mission is to perform pre-competitive, industry-oriented research to additively print heterogeneous products with diverse functionality via integration of novel materials, complex structures, and cutting-edge processes. The SHAP3D Center sites ? UMass Lowell, Georgia Tech, and UCONN ? intend to create fundamental knowledge and economic value for industry by: (a) enabling the rational design, creation, and use of new material feedstocks, geometries, processes, and performance associated with additively manufactured products, (b) generating this knowledge through a tight collaboration of industry, government, and academic partners, (c) establishing a synergistic network of excellence in additive manufacturing knowledge, experience, and facilities that adds value to each partner, and (d) training students as the next generation of leaders in additive manufacturing for industry. The planning grant enabled the SHAP3D team to bring together industry and government partners to assess and understand domestic manufacturing needs and to develop targeted research toward fulfilling those needs.
Intellectual Merit
The SHAP3D Center research will be driven by the performance requirements of industry and government members, built from a technical foundation of the fundamental structure-processing-property relationships associated with the voxel-level control and integration of diverse materials. The enormous number of combinations of materials, processing variables, and geometric features requires fundamental understanding of the material (base material, fillers/additives, interfaces) properties, processing protocols, and design rules to reliably predict the properties of products and parts. The underlying physical principles related to melting, processing, and solidification, and interfacial physics for heterogeneous materials can be used to predict the performance achieved across a wide variety of materials and processes. The Center will support members? choice of AM methods and envisions research that encompasses numerous additive printing methods, such as fused filament fabrication (FFF), selective laser melting/sintering (SLM/SLS), stereolithography/digital light projection (SLA/DLP), poly/ink-jet, and other additive approaches. The Center will add significant value for industry by addressing their vision to additively manufacture dissimilar materials into heterogeneous, valued- added products imbued with previously unattained biological, chemical, electrical, and mechanical functionality.
Broader Impacts:
SHAP3D will serve the diverse interests of industry, government, and academia to address fundamental research challenges to meet the commercial needs of industry for 3D printing of heterogeneous materials. The additive manufacturing industry is expected to top $20 billion within the next five years and is viewed as a research area for global competitive advantage by industries such as automotive, medical, aerospace, and consumer products. The Center aims to accelerate expansion and competitiveness of the domestic additive manufacturing (AM) industry and its customers by addressing two critical market needs: (1) the growth of AM into more complex topologies, heterogeneous, and multi-functional applications that command high margins commensurate with their increased performance, and (2) the expansion of AM into lower margin industries via order-of-magnitude improvements in throughput, material-per-performance cost reductions, and ease-of- use and design rules that enable SMEs to adopt techniques previously restricted to large industry players. SHAP3D will work closely with existing Manufacturing USA institutes ? for example, UML, UCONN, and Georgia Tech are all members of the FHE-MII, NextFlex ? as a route to rapidly adopt and translate the research findings to commercial relevance. The Center will disseminate its design, materials and processes research to industrial members and practitioners, and the broader academic community. SHAP3D will provide a technically trained workforce, with industrial perspective, through the close collaboration between industry and academia. GT site-specific educational programs associated with this I/UCRC include K-12 modular block, the Research Experience for Student Veterans in Advanced Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship (REVAMP) REU site.
Last Modified: 01/30/2019
Modified by: Hang (Jerry) Qi
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