Material Measurements Research for Additive Manufacturing

NIST recently expanded its research portfolio into additive manufacturing by adding nine new projects in materials measurements, characterization, and modeling. These projects cover experiments on the characterization of microstructures and properties of both metallic and polymeric materials. This research includes a wide variety of characterization techniques including X-ray scattering (USAXS, SAXS, and WAXS), microdiffraction, neutron reflectometry, Raman spectroscopy, dynamic nanomechanics, and a host of other techniques and technologies. This presentation will discuss the NIST portfolio of additive materials research and present preliminary results from these projects.