SYMPOSIUM 18: New Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic Materials

Additive manufacturing (AM, or 3D printing) has emerged as novel ceramic manufacturing processes with the advantages of design freedom, flexibility, high customization, and waste minimization. Various AM processes have been developed for structural and functional ceramic materials, including binder jetting, stereolithography, ink jet printing, selective laser sintering, fused deposition modeling, which have provided new opportunities to overcome the limitations of traditional ceramic manufacturing processes, such as the long processing time and difficulty to fabricate structures with complex geometries.

With the recent advances in powder processing, in situ process monitoring, in situ and ex situ characterization tools, nondestructive evaluation and testing, qualification and certification, we will develop a better understanding of the physical mechanisms controlling the unique microstructures, defect formation, and physical and chemical properties of additively manufactured ceramics.

Proposed Sessions/Topics

• New approaches for AM processes of ceramics and ceramic-matrix composites
• Novel techniques to prepare ceramic powders for AM
• Multiscale computational modeling and data-driven process optimization
• In situ and ex situ characterization of phase transformation, textures, defects, etc., using synchrotron X-ray, neutron diffraction, electron microscopy
• Mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties
• New applications of additively manufactured ceramics

Symposium Organizer(s)

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

Point(s) of Contact

• Bai Cui; bcui3@unl.edu
• Fei Peng; fpeng@g.clemson.edu
• Chao Ma; chao_ma@asu.edu
• Kalpana S. Katti; kalpana.katti@ndsu.edu
• Joel Destino; joeldestino@creighton.edu

Symposium Sponsor(s)

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