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This memo serves as an initial deficiency study of current foam modeling approaches, to determine where model changes and/or improvements can be made to capture the phenomena of receding foam. We are looking for feedback on our approach and suggestions from interested internal customers.

This memo serves as the latest step-by-step guide to using the mechanical-thermal (Crash-and-Burn) workflow.

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Simulation of additive manufacturing processes can provide essential insight into material behavior, residual stress, and ultimately, the performance of additively manufactured parts. In this work, we describe a new simulation based workflow utilizing both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics based formulations within the finite element software package SIERRA (Sierra Solid Mechanics Team in Sierra/SolidMechanics 4.52 User’s Guide SAND2019-2715. Technical report, Sandia National Laboratories, 2011) to enable integrated simulations of directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing processes. In this methodology, a high-fidelity fluid mechanics based model of additive manufacturing is employed as the first step in a simulation workflow. This fluid model uses a level set field to track the location of the boundary between the solid material and background gas and precisely predicts temperatures and material deposition shapes from additive manufacturing process parameters. The resulting deposition shape and temperature field from the fluid model are then mapped into a solid mechanics formulation to provide a more accurate surface topology for radiation and convection boundary conditions and a prescribed temperature field. Solid mechanics simulations are then conducted to predict the evolution of material stresses and microstructure within a part. By combining thermal history and deposition shape from fluid mechanics with residual stress and material property evolutions from solid mechanics, additional fidelity and precision are incorporated into additive manufacturing process simulations providing new insight into complex DED builds.

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It is well established that the variability in mechanical response and ultimate failure of additively manufactured metals correlates to uncertainties introduced in the build process, among which include internal void structure and residual stresses. Here, we quantify the aforementioned variabilities in 316L stainless steels by conducting simulations in Sierra/SM of the specimens/geometries used in Sandia's third fracture challenge (SFC3). We leverage the simulations and experimental work presented in 6 to construct a statistical representation of the internal void structure of the tension specimen used for material parameter calibration as well as the "challenge" geometry. Voided mesh samples of both specimens are generated given a set of statistical variables, and the physics simulations are conducted for multiple sets of realization to determine the effects of void structure on variability in the fracture paths and displacement-to-failure. Lastly, a series of simulations are presented which highlight the effect of the powder bed fusion additive manufacturing process on the formation of residual stresses in the as-built geometries.

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The third Sandia Fracture Challenge highlighted the geometric and material uncertainties introduced by modern additive manufacturing techniques. Tasked with the challenge of predicting failure of a complex additively-manufactured geometry made of 316L stainless steel, we combined a rigorous material calibration scheme with a number of statistical assessments of problem uncertainties. Specifically, we used optimization techniques to calibrate a rate-dependent and anisotropic Hill plasticity model to represent material deformation coupled with a damage model driven by void growth and nucleation. Through targeted simulation studies we assessed the influence of internal voids and surface flaws on the specimens of interest in the challenge which guided our material modeling choices. Employing the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test statistic, we developed a representative suite of simulations to account for the geometric variability of test specimens and the variability introduced by material parameter uncertainty. This approach allowed the team to successfully predict the failure mode of the experimental test population as well as the global response with a high degree of accuracy.

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This SAND report fulfills the final report requirement for the Born Qualified Grand Challenge LDRD. Born Qualified was funded from FY16-FY18 with a total budget of ~$13M over the 3 years of funding. Overall 70+ staff, Post Docs, and students supported this project over its lifetime. The driver for Born Qualified was using Additive Manufacturing (AM) to change the qualification paradigm for low volume, high value, high consequence, complex parts that are common in high-risk industries such as ND, defense, energy, aerospace, and medical. AM offers the opportunity to transform design, manufacturing, and qualification with its unique capabilities. AM is a disruptive technology, allowing the capability to simultaneously create part and material while tightly controlling and monitoring the manufacturing process at the voxel level, with the inherent flexibility and agility in printing layer-by-layer. AM enables the possibility of measuring critical material and part parameters during manufacturing, thus changing the way we collect data, assess performance, and accept or qualify parts. It provides an opportunity to shift from the current iterative design-build-test qualification paradigm using traditional manufacturing processes to design-by-predictivity where requirements are addressed concurrently and rapidly. The new qualification paradigm driven by AM provides the opportunity to predict performance probabilistically, to optimally control the manufacturing process, and to implement accelerated cycles of learning. Exploiting these capabilities to realize a new uncertainty quantification-driven qualification that is rapid, flexible, and practical is the focus of this effort.

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