Please join VEXTEC as we present this month’s TRX Webinar for America Makes (Technical Review and Exchange). The live webinar is titled “ICME Methods for Fatigue Performance Prediction of Metal AM Components“, and will be held Wednesday, September 23 2020 from 2:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern Time.
UPDATE: The archived webinar is now available on the America Makes YouTube page.
To efficiently use metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) to produce structural components, it is essential to have a robust protocol and software tool to certify the parts, especially if they are fatigue critical. With the objective of accelerating the qualification and adoption processes for new AM materials, VEXTEC’s webinar presents a method for augmenting the traditional verification process with a model-informed software tool called VPS-MICRO®.
VEXTEC’s VPS-MICRO is an Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) based tool that predicts the risk of cyclic fatigue failure of an additive manufactured metal part based on the location-specific microstructure, defects, residual stress, and surface roughness. Using the software eliminates unsuccessful design options early in the design process. Also, the software greatly reduces the test cost and time needed to determine the statistical confidence in the certified lifetime, reducing the need to acquire a large population of fatigue tests needed to do the same.
VEXTEC Presenters Include:
Bob Tryon (Chief Technology Officer)
Animesh Dey (Chief Product Development Officer)
Michael Oja (Sales & Project Manager)
About America Makes
Driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes is the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. As the national accelerator for additive manufacturing (AM) based in Youngstown, Ohio, America Makes is the nation’s leading and collaborative partner in AM and 3DP technology research, discovery, creation, and innovation. Comprised of member organizations from industry, academia, government, non-government agencies, and workforce and economic development resources, the America Makes membership community is working together to innovate and accelerate AM to increase our nation’s global manufacturing competitiveness. America Makes is the first of eight Manufacturing Innovation Institutes established and managed by the U.S. Department of Defense as public-private partnerships. America Makes is also a member of the Manufacturing USA® network, which seeks to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing. For more information about America Makes, visit americamakes.us and follow @AmericaMakes on Twitter.
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