Laser Engineered Net Shaping Process Characterization

Abstract

The thermo-mechanical characterization of additive manufacturing, specifically the Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) process has become a priority research area at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first study on LENS conducted at LANL is being conducted as collaboration between LANL and the University of Texas at Austin as research for a master’s thesis. This project takes a unique two path approach that merges both experimental and computational data in an attempt to gain further broad spectrum process knowledge of direct laser deposition as a means of additive manufacturing.