Workshop: Environmental Implications of Additive Manufacturing; Arlington, Virginia; October 14-15, 2014

研讨会：增材制造的环境影响；

• 批准号: 1450529
• 负责人: Yong Huang
• 金额: $ 2.96万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Environmental; Implications; Additive; Manufacturing

This grant provides funding to support a workshop on the environmental implications of additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional printing, is a suite of computer-automated technologies to fabricate three-dimensional structural and functional parts from metallic, plastic, ceramic, biological, and composite materials. The workshop will help identify the environmental implications and research needs related to additive manufacturing and further inform a research agenda. It will build productive, on-going collaborations among users of additive manufacturing and a wide range of researchers involved in the impact assessment of emerging technologies. The ideas coming from the workshop attendees will be helpful to policymakers setting environmental priorities as well as organizations developing research strategies and educational activities. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for disseminating information and sharing ideas about the emerging technology of additive manufacturing and its impact on the environment and occupational health. The workshop will review the existing research on environmental impacts of additive manufacturing; identify knowledge gaps and uncertainties that could help inform an agenda for future research into environmental impacts of additive manufacturing; and expand the research community focused on these environmental and energy-use issues by including researchers with backgrounds in industrial ecology, energy and materials mass balance assessments, lifecycle analysis, and environmental risk assessment. The major intellectual outcomes of this workshop include a research agenda for environmental and occupational health issues that proactively addresses future uses of additive manufacturing and a research consensus between the additive manufacturing community and the environment and lifecycle assessment community. This workshop is distinct from previous additive manufacturing-related workshops in its focus on environmental implications.

这笔拨款用于支持关于增材制造对环境影响的研讨会。增材制造，也被称为三维打印，是一套计算机自动化技术，可以用金属、塑料、陶瓷、生物和复合材料制造三维结构和功能部件。研讨会将有助于确定与增材制造相关的环境影响和研究需求，并进一步为研究议程提供信息。它将在增材制造用户和参与新兴技术影响评估的广泛研究人员之间建立富有成效的持续合作。来自研讨会与会者的想法将有助于决策者确定环境优先事项，以及制定研究战略和教育活动的组织。本次讲习班的目的是提供一个论坛，传播有关新兴增材制造技术及其对环境和职业健康的影响的信息和交流想法。研讨会将回顾增材制造对环境影响的现有研究；确定知识差距和不确定性，这可能有助于为未来研究增材制造对环境的影响提供信息；通过吸纳具有工业生态学、能源和材料质量平衡评估、生命周期分析和环境风险评估背景的研究人员，扩大对这些环境和能源利用问题的研究社区。本次研讨会的主要成果包括一项关于环境和职业健康问题的研究议程，该议程积极解决增材制造的未来用途，以及增材制造界与环境和生命周期评估界之间的研究共识。本次研讨会不同于以往的增材制造相关研讨会，其重点是环境影响。