Multiscale Modeling of Additively Manufactured Metals: Application to Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process

Multiscale Modeling of Additively Manufactured Metals: Application to Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process provides comprehensive coverage on the latest methodology in additive manufacturing (AM) modeling and simulation. Although there are extensive advances within the AM field, challenges to predictive theoretical and computational approaches still hinder the widespread adoption of AM. The book reviews metal additive materials and processes and discusses multiscale/multiphysics modeling strategies. In addition, coverage of modeling and simulation of AM process in order to understand the process-structure-property relationship is reviewed, along with the modeling of morphology evolution, phase transformation, and defect formation in AM parts.

Residual stress, distortion, plasticity/damage in AM parts are also considered, with scales associated with the spatial, temporal and/or material domains reviewed. This book is useful for graduate students, engineers and professionals working on AM materials, equipment, process, development and modeling.

1. Multiscale and multiphysics modeling of metal AM
2. Metal AM materials and processes
3. Molecular dynamics modeling of sintering phenomena and mechanical strength of metal particles
4. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of sintering behavior of AM particles using reconstructed microstructures from synchrotron X-ray microtomography
5. Discrete element modeling of powder flow and laser heating in metal laser powder bed fusion process
6. Finite element simulation of residual stress in AM metals
7. Computational fluid dynamics and cellular automata modeling of microstructure in metal AM parts
8. Phase field modeling of microstructure evolution in selective laser melting-manufactured titanium alloy
9. Finite element modeling of impact properties
10. Finite element modeling of fatigue properties