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I-AM 2022
Altis Grand Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal

Conference: October 19 – 20, 2022
Optional Facility Tours: October 21, 2022

Program Track Descriptions

ASME I-AM is a standard-setting global forum in additive manufacturing R&D , offering a prestigious opportunity for those in the mechanical engineering field to publish their work and interface with experts from all facets of the industry. Join us in Lisbon, Portugal and submit your abstract now.

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The Polymers Track for IAM22 focuses on the additive manufacturing of polymer and polymer-based materials, including polymer matrix composites. This track represents a wide variety of topics related to materials science and engineering, mechanics of materials, design, manufacturing science, manufacturing processes, process design and optimization, polymer reuse and recycling, repair with polymer AM, policy and regulations related to polymer AM, standards and testing methods, and other areas of major contemporary interest. All polymer AM process types are welcome, including extrusion-based processes (e.g., FDM/FFF and bioplotting), binder jetting, material jetting (e.g., PolyJet and InkJet-based processes), resin-based processes (e.g., stereolithography, DLP, and LCD), powder bed melting (e.g., polymer SLS), and laminated layer processes. This track welcomes experimental, analytical, and computational works, as well as combinations of these approaches. Technical papers, critical reviews, and oral presentations related to one or more of the individual topics are sought for this conference from interested researchers and practitioners; both academic and industry contributions are welcome for the Polymers Track. Please see the IAM 22 Instructions for Authors for guidance on preparing and submitting materials for this track. The track topics include but are not limited to:

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General Problems in Polymer AM
  • Properties and Characterization of Polymer AM
  • AM vs Traditional Methods for Polymers
  • Process/Material Modeling for Thermoplastics
  • Process/Material Modeling for Thermosets
  • Process/Material Modeling for Biomaterials, Gels, and other Polymers
  • Process/Material Modeling for Polymer Matrix Composites
  • Process/Material Modeling for Multi-Materials
  • Polymer Process Design and Optimization
  • Design for/with Polymer AM
  • Standards and Testing Methods
  • Heat Treatment, Sintering, Consolidation, and Stress-Relieving Methods
  • Recycling, Reuse, Repair, and End-of-Life Design
  • End-User Manufacturing
  • Safety, Regulations, Education, and Policy
  • Software and Modeling Methods
  • Tooling and Secondary Polymer AM

 

The Ceramics Track for IAM22 focuses on the additive manufacturing of ceramic materials, ceramic composites, and ceramic-based multi-materials. This track covers a wide variety of topics related to materials science, mechanics of materials, design, manufacturing processes, process design and optimization, material reuse and recycling, policy and regulations, standards, testing methods, and other areas of major contemporary interest. All ceramic AM processes are welcome, including material extrusion (e.g., FDM, FDC, Robocasting..), vat photopolymerization (e.g., SLA, DLP…), material jetting (e.g., Ink Jet, Aerosol Jet, NanoParticle Jetting…), sheet lamination, binder jetting, direct energy deposition, powder bed fusion and hybrids of these processes.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • General Problems in Ceramic AM
  • Properties of Ceramic AM Material
  • Ceramic AM vs Traditional Methods
  • Process/Material Modeling
  • Ceramic AM Process Design and Optimization
  • Design for AM (Ceramics
  • Standards and Testing Methods
  • Heat Treatment, Infiltration, Sintering, Machining, and Surface Finishing Methods
  • Quality Assurance
  • Ceramic Waste Materials Recycling
  • Design for AM (Ceramics
  • End-User Manufacturing
  • Safety, Regulations, and Policy for Ceramic AM
  • Molds, Cores and Secondary Ceramic AM
  • Applications

 

The Metals Track for IAM22 focuses on the additive manufacturing of metallic materials, graded metals, dissimilar metals, and AM metals on existing structures. The physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of metallic components fabricated by the various metal AM design and processing methods will be covered, as will ways to improve the properties of these materials. New and innovative processing methods will be covered in the session, as will novel applications of AM processing and hybrid manufacturing. As metal additive manufacturing is better understood, advancements in the modeling of these processes will be addressed as well.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Metal AM processing of Novel Materials
  • Process Monitoring in Metal AM
  • Enhancing Properties of Metal AM parts
  • Advancements in Process Modeling and simulation in Metal AM
  • Recent trends in Characterization and Testing of Metal AM Parts
  • Novel Applications of Metal AM
  • Developments in Repairing and Multi-Material Metal AM
  • Hybrid AM: Integrating AM with traditional processes
  • Design for Metal AM
  • Industrialization of Metal AM: value chain, industrial use cases, qualification, quality insurance
  • Metal AM processes design and optimization: from widespread processes (L-PBF) to strong growth processes (binder jetting, Arc-DED)
  • Physics of metal AM: energy-matter interaction, fast cooling, solidification, etc.
  • Process hybridization AM+AM process
  • Large scale Metal AM applications, e.g., Cold Spray and DED
  • Economic factors of metal AM

 

The Emerging Technologies Track for IAM22 focuses on the broad applications of AM and new challenges caused by AM and these applications. AM offers many advantages over traditional manufacturing; however, several disadvantages are known such as poor mechanical properties due to material limit, slow build rates, and a lack of industry standards for testing and evaluating the limits of the widespread use of the technology. New materials and new methods for processing and post-processing are needed to improve the quality of 2D- or 3D-printed parts and the range of mechanical properties achievable for broad applications.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Novel materials in AM
  • Qualifications/Quality Assurance/Quality Control (Q3) of AM
  • Green/sustainable AM
  • Large scale AM
  • Biomedical AM
  • Lab assisted AM
  • Multi-technology integration for AM
  • Smart AM
  • High performance computational process modeling and simulation of AM
  • Special applications with multi-functionality