Transformational Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Associated Research Workshop; Austin, Texas; August 7, 2014

3D打印是当今最有前途的新制造技术之一，已经有了许多应用，未来还会有更多的应用。然而，尽管今天的3D打印工艺可以生产具有非常复杂几何形状的部件，但它们速度慢、粗糙且难以检查，这限制了它们在工业相关应用中的使用。将为美国3D打印领域的领先研究人员参与讨论提供支持，这些讨论旨在与英国的领先研究人员一起确定改进3D打印的有前途的突破性方法。这些研讨会将与两个专注于3DP的领先年度会议同时举行，一个在英国，一个在美国。添加剂制造(AM)具有巨大的潜力，但目前存在技术限制，包括建造速度慢、表面光洁度差、传统检测方法对复杂AM部件的表征能力有限、对工艺完成后必须拆除的临时支撑结构的要求，以及通常较低的能源效率。提议举办两次研讨会，第一次是2014年7月7日，也就是在英国诺丁汉举行的第九届国际添加剂制造和3D打印会议的前一天，第二次是在2014年8月7日，也就是在得克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的第25届国际固体自由形式制造(SFF)研讨会的第二天。这些研讨会将汇聚美国和英国的顶尖研究人员，集中讨论如何找到突破性的方法来解决当前AM流程中的局限性。

3D Printing is one of the most promising new manufacturing technologies today, with many applications already and the promise of many more in the future. However, while today's 3D Printing processes can produce parts with very complex geometries, they are slow, rough, and difficult to inspect and this limits their use in industrially-relevant applications. Support will provided for the participation of leading US researchers in 3D Printing in discussions aimed at identifying promising breakthrough approaches to improving 3D Printing with leading researchers from the UK. These workshops will be held in conjunction with two of the leading annual conferences focused on 3DP, one in the United Kingdom and one in the United States.Additive Manufacturing (AM) has huge potential, but currently has technological limitations, including slow build speed, poor surface finish, limited ability of conventional inspection methods to characterize complex AM parts, requirements for temporary support structures that must be removed after process completion, and often poor energy efficiency. Two workshops are proposed, the first on July 7, 2014, the day before the 9th International Conference of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing in Nottingham, UK, and the second on August 7, 2014, the day following the 25th International Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Symposium in Austin, Texas. These workshops will bring together leading researchers in the US and the UK for focused discussions on identifying breakthrough approaches to addressing the limitations in current AM processes.