SBIR/STTR Research Award
Microstructure-Based Analytical Software Toolset for Optimizing Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processing Parameters
Award amount
$499,727Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MRL MATERIALS RESOURCES LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2019-06-18
- Contract end date
- 2020-11-30
- UEI
- L9FGFCL63WL3
- Solicitation number
- 16.2
- Topic code
- N162-083
Research abstract
The performance of parts made by metallic additive manufacturing (AM) is highly correlated to the underlying bulk/surface microstructure characteristics (e.g. porosities, morphology, phases etc.) which are related to the processing and post processing conditions. Regardless of how optimized post processing can be, poorly selected processing parameters will always result in poor component performance, especially under dynamic loading conditions. Using trial and error to optimize processing parameters to achieve desired performance is expensive and time consuming. Thus, MRL is adopting an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approach which uses simulation and modeling for process parameter optimization in AM in general and in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) in particular.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- ICME-Driven Software for the Deposition of Functionally Graded Materials
- Maturing CuNi and NAB Alloys for Wire Laser Additive Manufacturing
- Agile Manufacturing of Segmented Scramjet Nozzles
- Lightweight Rapid Alloy Development and Fabrication using ICME based Optimization
- ICME-informed DED Additive manufacturing for NSN 4820-00-483-0679
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Rapid, Low Cost, High-quality Component Qualification Using Multi-scale, Multi-physics Analytical Toolset for the Optimization of Metal Additive Manuf
- Rapid, Low Cost, High-quality Component Qualification Using Multi-scale, Multi-physics Analytical Toolset for the Optimization of Metal Additive Manuf
- Rapid, Low Cost, High-quality Component Qualification Using Multi-scale, Multi-physics Analytical Toolset for the Optimization of Metal Additive Manuf
- Rapid, Low Cost, High-quality Component Qualification Using Multi-scale, Multi-physics Analytical Toolset for the Optimization of Metal Additive Manuf
- Microstructure-Based Analytical Software Toolset for Optimizing Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processing Parameters
Research funding history
42 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2010–2025). Reported award amounts total $19,424,359. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense