Planning I/UCRC University of Massachusetts Lowell: Center for Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D)

规划 I/UCRC 马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校：3D 材料异质增材打印科学中心 (SHAP3D)

• 批准号: 1650517
• 负责人: Joey Mead
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1650517&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; UCRC; University; Massachusetts; Lowell

Additive manufacturing technologies are widely used in a variety of industries including consumer products, automotive, medical, aerospace, and machinery. The additive manufacturing industry exceeds $5 billion in 2015 and is expected to top $20 billion within the next five years. It has become an extremely competitive area of research in countries around the world. To ensure US' global leadership in this emerging field originated from the US, academic partners (currently including Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), University of Connecticut (UConn), and University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML)) have come together to create the Center for Science of Heterogeneous Additive Printing of 3D Materials (SHAP3D). SHAP3D will serve the diverse interests of industry, government, and academia by addressing fundamental research challenges to meet the commercial needs of industry for 3D printing of heterogeneous materials. SHAP3D will develop the critical and necessary insight into fundamental processing-structure-property relationships to predict and control the integration of diverse materials for 3D printing. The work of SHAP3D will be critical as the industry adopts 3D printing for product prototyping, tooling, and higher volume manufacturing with three specific economic outcomes. First, the Center will pursue higher performance materials and composites that enable diverse and lighter weight products to minimize total life cycle costs and environmental footprint. Second, in order to minimize processing costs, the Center will explore more optimal and parallel processes to more quickly print products with higher resolution. Third, SHAP3D will investigate interfacial physics and design concepts for integrating dissimilar materials to facilitate multi-functional components/products, broaden the number of 3D printed applications, and increase market size. Active collaboration with industry partners will ensure relevance to education and training of the future workforce to expedite the adoption and integration of 3D printing methods into manufacturing processes. The three institutions will create a scholarship fund specifically for the recruitment of diverse graduate students. A portion of this scholarship fund will be directed to underrepresented students from minority serving institutions, including community colleges. UML educational programs associated with this IUCRC target undergraduate and graduate students at UML and local community colleges, K-12 students, and industry professionals. Modules on additive manufacturing will be developed and delivered for existing undergraduate and graduate courses, for on-line teaching, and for industrial seminars. Modules will be modified for K-12 students, with undergraduate students in the UTeach program introducing additive manufacturing at local high schools and to K-12 students. Undergraduates will have opportunities to perform research through specific projects, UML's Co-op Scholar program (for freshman and sophomores), senior capstone projects, and UML's programs to allow undergraduate and graduate students to spend three to six-month-long periods at the Center's industry partners' facilities. The SHAP3D Center will perform research to understand the synthesis, properties, and processing of heterogeneous materials for integration into complex, additively manufactured products. The work SHAP3D envisions would encompass many different additive printing methods, such as fused deposition modeling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), stereolithography (SLA), poly/ink jet, and other additive approaches. The Center will perform fundamental material modeling and processing research to establish and translate validated materials and processes to students and practitioners. The proposed center will enable: (i) the rational design and creation of new material feedstocks and, (ii) the understanding of material properties, protocols, and design rules that must be characterized and developed to optimize the process and predict the properties of products and parts created from multiple polymer materials (e.g., different constituent materials, fillers/additives, and interfaces). UML is internationally known for its plastics engineering program with its interdisciplinary integration of synthesis, characterization, processing, and design. Participating faculty members at UML will provide research polymer/plastic materials, their product design and processing. Collaboration among faculty provides the capability to go from ?art to part? and convert product design concepts to reality, and also to research and develop the industry supply chain for the polymeric materials, compounded feedstock, molds/tools, as well as the plastics conversion machinery and sensors.

增材制造技术广泛应用于各种行业，包括消费品、汽车、医疗、航空航天和机械。2015年，增材制造业的规模超过50亿美元，预计未来五年将超过200亿美元。它已成为世界各国极具竞争力的研究领域。为了确保美国在这一源自美国的新兴领域的全球领导地位，学术合作伙伴（目前包括格鲁吉亚理工学院（GT），康涅狄格大学（UConn）和马萨诸塞州洛厄尔大学（UML））共同创建了3D材料异质增材打印科学中心（SHAP 3D）。SHAP 3D将通过解决基础研究挑战，满足工业对异质材料3D打印的商业需求，为工业、政府和学术界的不同利益服务。SHAP 3D将开发对基本加工-结构-性能关系的关键和必要的洞察力，以预测和控制用于3D打印的各种材料的集成。SHAP 3D的工作将是至关重要的，因为该行业采用3D打印进行产品原型设计，工具和更大批量的制造，具有三个特定的经济成果。首先，该中心将追求更高性能的材料和复合材料，使多样化和重量更轻的产品，以最大限度地减少总生命周期成本和环境足迹。第二，为了最大限度地降低加工成本，该中心将探索更优化和并行的流程，以更快地打印更高分辨率的产品。第三，SHAP 3D将研究用于集成不同材料的界面物理和设计概念，以促进多功能组件/产品，扩大3D打印应用的数量，并增加市场规模。与行业合作伙伴的积极合作将确保与未来劳动力的教育和培训相关，以加快3D打印方法的采用和集成到制造过程中。这三所大学将设立一个奖学金基金，专门用于招收不同的研究生。 该奖学金基金的一部分将用于少数民族服务机构（包括社区学院）代表人数不足的学生。 与此IUCRC相关的UML教育计划针对UML和当地社区学院的本科生和研究生，K-12学生和行业专业人士。 增材制造模块将为现有的本科和研究生课程，在线教学和工业研讨会开发和交付。 模块将针对K-12学生进行修改，UTeach项目的本科生将在当地高中和K-12学生中引入增材制造。本科生将有机会通过具体项目，UML的合作学者计划（新生和大学生），高级顶点项目和UML的计划进行研究，让本科生和研究生在中心的行业合作伙伴的设施中度过三到六个月的时间。 SHAP 3D中心将进行研究，以了解异质材料的合成，性能和加工，以集成到复杂的增材制造产品中。 SHAP 3D设想的工作将包括许多不同的增材打印方法，如熔融沉积成型（FDM），选择性激光烧结（SLS），立体光刻（SLA），聚合物/喷墨和其他增材方法。该中心将进行基本的材料建模和加工研究，以建立和翻译经验证的材料和工艺给学生和从业人员。拟议的中心将实现：（i）合理设计和创造新材料原料，（ii）理解必须表征和开发的材料特性，协议和设计规则，以优化工艺并预测由多种聚合物材料（例如，不同的组成材料、填料/添加剂和界面）。 UML是国际知名的塑料工程计划，其综合，表征，加工和设计的跨学科集成。UML的参与教师将提供研究聚合物/塑料材料，其产品设计和加工。教师之间的合作提供了从？艺术要分开吗？并将产品设计概念转化为现实，同时研究和开发聚合物材料、复合原料、模具/工具以及塑料转化机械和传感器的行业供应链。