MADISON - Additive Manufacturing, Digitalization, and Sustainability

The general objective of the MADISON group, a continuation of the CEFAM 2020-2022 project, is to enhance the participation of centers in the AM value chain. The plan includes:

• Addressing the current research challenges in AM technologies when applied to metallic materials.
• Increasing the impact of excellence in training for the staff of participating centers and attracting talent.
• Creating strategies for dynamization, transfer, dissemination, or industrial/intellectual protection, and using them to enhance the reach of the results to both the scientific community and companies.

At a technical level, the project addresses the fabrication of five different types of materials (Ti64 and alloys, Cu and alloys, conventional Al alloys, steels and Fe-based alloys, and Ni alloys) through the simulation and fabrication of powders and the additive manufacturing of raw materials.
Additionally, incremental improvements will be made to AM technologies (PBF-LB, PBF-EB/M, DED-LB/M, DED-Arc/M, Hybrid (DED-LB/M + conventional technologies), BJT/M); and improvements will be proposed for material processability (depending on process conditions, post-processes, and characterization methods of manufactured parts).
For the new materials developed, non-destructive inspection methodologies and technologies will also be designed. Finally, an analysis of the sustainability of the new (or improved) AM processes will be carried out.