SYMPOSIUM 17 – Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic and Glass Materials: New Frontiers and Industrial Applications

Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is transforming the design and fabrication of ceramic and glass materials by enabling unprecedented geometric complexity, process flexibility, customization, and material efficiency. A wide range of AM techniques have been developed for ceramic and glass materials, including vat photopolymerization, material extrusion, binder jetting, material jetting, powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition, laminated object manufacturing, and other emerging processes. These technologies offer new opportunities to overcome key limitations of conventional processing, such as long fabrication cycles, tooling constraints, material waste, and the difficulty of producing complex or architected structures.

Recent advances in feedstock processing, process modeling and simulation, in situ monitoring, in situ and ex situ characterization, nondestructive evaluation, qualification, certification, and scale-up are accelerating the development of additively manufactured ceramic and glass materials for demanding industrial applications. This symposium will provide a forum for researchers, engineers, and industry practitioners to exchange recent progress, identify critical challenges, and discuss emerging opportunities in AM of ceramic and glass materials, from fundamental process understanding to practical deployment. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, feedstock design; AM process development; printing, debinding, sintering, and post-processing strategies; multiscale characterization; process-structure-property relationships; computational modeling; nondestructive evaluation; standards, qualification, and certification; manufacturing scale-up; cost and productivity; reliability and performance validation; and industrial implementation.

The symposium welcomes contributions on both ceramic and glass materials, including theoretical, computational, and experimental advances in processing, characterization, property control, and application development. Contributions highlighting industrial applications are highly encouraged. Applications of interest include biomedical devices, optical components, energy systems, electronics, aerospace, defense, chemical processing, thermal management, architecture, art and design, and other emerging technological areas.

Session Topics:

Additive manufacturing of glass
Novel feedstock design and preparation strategies
New additive manufacturing approaches
Printing and post-processing
Modeling, simulation, and artificial intelligence
In-situ and ex-situ characterization
Microstructure evolution, phase transformation, texture, and defects
Mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical, biological, and chemical properties
Process-structure-property relationships
Standardization, qualification, and certification
Industrial implementation

Symposium Organizer(s):

Chao Ma, Arizona State University, USA
Bai Cui, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Joel Destino, Creighton University, USA
Fei Peng, Clemson University, USA
Kalpana S. Katti, North Dakota State University, USA

Point(s) of Contact:

Chao Ma; chao_ma@asu.edu

Division Sponsor(s):

Basic Science Division
Bioceramics Division
Glass and Optical Materials Division
Manufacturing Division