Materials and Manufacturing2

• Leverage a fundamental multiscale understanding of materials to tailor the chemistry, composition, and processing to improve the performance of materials systems
• Incorporate design and manufacturing considerations early in the materials development process
• Couple simulations, experiments and machine learning approaches throughout the design, development and manufacturing process
• In-situ mechanical testing of material/structural components using novel optical measurement techniques

Benefits

• Co-development of materials and processes results in a decrease in the time and cost associated with developing improved materials systems
• Validate mechanical performance through demonstration
• Use of machine learning enables the optimization of complex materials, parts and processes that would be impossible using traditional approaches

Focus Areas

• • Development and processing of high-strength, lightweight materials
  • Process development and qualification for additive manufacturing
  • Development and qualification of new materials for polymer and metal additive manufacturing
  • Implementation of novel in situ mechanical testing techniques in complex environments (supersonic/hypersonic wind tunnels)
  • Development of scalable, hierarchical self-assembled materials
  • Design of highly recyclable polymers
  • Intelligent process control in manufacturing