Materials Science

The mission of CAMDI is to advance current additive manufacturing (AM) processes and foster innovation through AM research into new processes and design-for-AM best practices that enable widespread adoption of AM.

We partner with researchers, educators, and industrial partners who seek to:

• Explore the use of industrial-quality AM processes to fabricate parts of interest to them. We have in-house expertise to help with technology selection, design (or re-design) to suit a particular AM process, and fabrication and finishing of parts.
• Push the boundaries of industrial-quality AM into new materials, new design capabilities, and new levels of quality control and predictability. We have in-house expertise and equipment for process and part metrology and control, advanced design for AM, and materials development.
• Innovate entirely new AM processes. We have a suite of in-house experimental testbeds that enable aerosol deposition, reactive extrusion of thermoset polymers, micro-sintering of metals, AM of polymer composites, and many other capabilities. We are experts at process innovation.

Services Offered

• 3D printing and additive manufacturing
• Prototyping and design assistance
• Access to advanced manufacturing tools
• Training in additive manufacturing methods
• Custom fabrication support

The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC brings together researchers from across science and engineering to create materials with new atomic-scale structures and functionalities, and to develop approaches for actively controlling and reconfiguring materials in real time. These materials will enable the development of new and improved technologies in areas such as sustainable energy, quantum information processing, bioinspired systems, and semiconductors for telecommunications, computing, and sensing.

Services Offered

• Access to shared experimental facilities
• Materials synthesis and characterization
• Advanced imaging and spectroscopy
• Collaborative research and consultation
• Training in materials research methods

Services Offered

• Testing of construction and infrastructure materials
• Analysis of durability, weathering, and fatigue in materials
• Structural performance and characterization studies
• Consultation on material selection and sustainability for infrastructure projects