Additive Manufacturing Materials & Design Lab

The AMMDL focuses on data-driven design modeling, data analytics, advanced materials, additive manufacturing, experimental characterization, and computational modeling. The main research area is in AM methods, specifically multi-material extrusion processes. Despite significant progress in the AM field, several technical challenges remain, such as a lack of AM design tools, modeling and simulation tools; fatigue modeling and characterization; a limited number of available materials; build capacity, processing time, certification, and qualification. Among these activities, primarily, using functionally graded additive manufacturing, TPMS lattices, multiple material processing, and fiber-reinforced composite additive fabrication and their design and computational modeling are the interest of AMMDL research direction.

The main specific research interests are:

• new material development and processing,

• computational modeling and characterization,

• data-driven design and functional modeling,

• data analytics and machine learning.