Metallic Additive Manufacturing MANWG Focus Team

The MANWG Metallic Additive Manufacturing Focus Group was set up in early 2017 and aims to:

• Share best practice (how-to guides) and promote the standardisation of modelling approaches
• Make virtual manufacturing tools more accurate, by proposing benchmarks
• Make the use of virtual manufacturing tools more efficient

Short term:

• state-of-art review on AM simulation
• most reliable & efficient methodology (Eigenvalue/Lumping mass substructure)
• what can be done and transferred to industrial practitioners
• a possible Benchmark magazine on Metallic Additive Manufacturing
• benchmarks of different software tools
• recommend best design practice
  
  

Mid-term:

• encourage vendors and researchers to develop more efficient simulation algorithm and software tools, e.g. to cover the defect analysis & prediction such as porosity, and optimize AM process window
  
  

Long term:

• Virtual manufacturing process simulation for a complete AM product cycle

A list of the current members of the Metallic Additive Manufacturing MANWG Focus Team can be viewed here.

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