SIMULIA Suvery--Simulation Requirements for Additive Manufacturing

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* 1. Contact Information

Name

Company

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. Process Types: What Additive Manufacturing process types are you most interested in modeling?

Material Extrusion

Powder Bed Fusion

Directed Energy Deposition

Binder Jetting

Vat Photopolymerization

Sheet Lamination

Material Jetting

Hybrid/Custom Processes

Please describe in detail the process types you are interested in modeling.

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* 3. Please describe the specific process challenges that you are facing, per process.

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* 4. Generative Design: List the top design rules that would be required in a generative (automatically determined) design process for your Additive Manufacturing applications

Minimum or maximum member size

Specific limit on overhang angles

Automatic support structure generation (if so, please describe design criteria for the support structures)

Please describe any other design rules that you may have in detail.

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* 5. Lattice Optimization: What types of lattice structures would be ideal for your applications?

Specific patters that meet functional requirements such as bone in-growth for biomedical applications or heat exchange for high-temperature applications (please describe, below)

Specific repeating unit cells (please describe, below)

Please describe any other lattice requirements that you may have in detail.

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* 6. Material Considerations: What kinds of materials do you need to design for and what specific properties do you need to capture?

Metals

Polymers

Composites

Ceramics

Describe your specific materials and any material phenomena that need to be captured (e.g. microstructure, porosity, plasticity). Specifying why these features are important would be helpful also.

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* 7. Process Considerations: What are your engineering goals when running a process simulation?

Accurately predicting the temperature profile within the part during the build

Understanding part distortion during the build process

Understanding residual stresses

Describe your specific process simulation goals here.

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* 8. In-service Performance Considerations: What kinds of service conditions are expected for your additively manufactured components, and what aspects of this behavior need to be modeled?

Contact with other components in assembly

Thermal cycles

Noise and Vibration

Cracking and Fatigue

Please describe your in-service loading scenarios in detail.

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* 9. Process Optimization: What key Additive Manufacturing process parameters are available to you for optimization?

Scan Speed

Laser/heat source Intensity

Hatching Pattern

Build Orientation

Please describe your key process parameters here, and the degree to which you can control them.

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* 10. Please use this space to describe any additional requirements that you may have regarding Additive Manufacturing simulation solutions. Your feedback is highly appreciated!