Madison, Wisconsin, July 23, 2024 – With this award, Intact Solutions will develop next generation software technology for the generative design of pre-qualified additively manufactured metal components that explicitly takes advantage of the additive manufacturing process capabilities, including material heterogeneity and anisotropy, internal strains, and other process-induced properties. The approach builds on technological breakthroughs in Intact’s simulation technology for additive manufacturing and generative design applications previously developed with funding from NIST and DARPA, and seeks to demonstrate a number of transformative innovations. These include the ability to generate geometry of highly efficient components with spatially heterogeneous material properties, designed explicitly in terms of experimentally validated process plans. Furthermore, the generated designs will be pre-qualified virtually with respect to process, material properties, and function using scalable and calibrated path-scale simulation.
The Intact.Additive simulation technology is based on rigorous scientific principles and relies on the thermal history of the manufacturing process to fuse, correlate, and unify simulation, experimental, and process data. While proposed approach is applicable to many additive manufacturing processes, the project will focus on PBF as one of the most challenging and important metal additive manufacturing processes.
The goal of the Intact.Additive platform is to drive adoption of Additive Manufacturing for mission critical applications throughout DoD and industry. By minimizing reliance on iterative processes and physical testing, Intact.Additive aims to eliminate unnecessary waste and reduce the associated high costs. Additionally, it will improve quality by minimizing uncertainties related to both performance and manufacturing processes.
To request more information about Intact.Additive, please email info@intact-solutions.com.
