Additive Manufacturing for Post-Processing

Additive Manufacturing for Post Processing (AMPP) is a team comprised of two Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering students: Nathan Goodwin and Andrew Furmidge. The project is focused in the area of metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines, which are still a developing technology. Improvements have been made to the quality of the machines in the past years, but many limitations still exist. One of these is the inability to print parts that are larger than the build volume. In an effort to solve this problem, whole parts are divided into pieces that are printed individually. This team’s senior project is to create a joining method for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) AM department. An employee at LLNL, Stephen Knaus, is providing the requirements of the joining method, and Professor Peter Schuster is advising the team through the design process