Please welcome Dr. Brian Paul from Oregon State University. His topic of discussion is the additive manufacturing of functioning alloys.
As always refreshments are available in 428 Daniels Hall 30 minutes before the seminar begins.
Over the past ten years, Professor Paul has helped more than a dozen companies translate microchannel and
nanomanufacturing process technology into the marketplace. Among these efforts, microchannel process technology has been used to synthesize and assemble nano-scale building blocks into functional films for coating and brazing applications. More recently, these technologies are being investigated for use in the laser powder bed fusion of functional alloys. Functional alloys are metal alloys that can be used by mechanical designers to specify functional areas of monolithic metal parts, enabled by selective local changes to material properties. As an example, the oxidation of tool steel could be used to embed capacitive sensors within cutting tools to provide signals for tool health monitoring, thereby avoiding inevitable failure and improving worker safety and productivity. Further, additive manufacturing provides a unique platform for deploying hard-to-make functional alloys, like oxidedispersion strengthened stainless steels, which can be used as a replacement material for high-cost, highperformance Ni-based superalloys. This seminar will focus on 1) the impact of commercializing technology on manufacturing engineering research and education at Oregon State University (OSU); and 2) progress toward the use of additive manufacturing to advance functional alloys at the OSU Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute (ATAMI).
Brian K. Paul is an ASME Fellow and a Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at OSU where he conducts research in manufacturing process design and performs experimental and computational investigations in materials joining, thin film deposition and hybrid additive manufacturing. Professor Paul has authored more than 100 refereed publications, received twelve U.S. patents (six licensed), and helped 15 companies advance microchannel and nanomanufacturing process technology toward the marketplace, four formed from work with his graduate students. In 2013, Professor Paul was invited to serve as the Assistant Director of Technology within President Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, to help devise a federal strategy to overcome industry impediments to manufacturing innovation, now known as Manufacturing USA. Upon his return to OSU, Professor Paul helped establish the Rapid Advancement of Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute within Manufacturing USA, where he is lead of the Module Manufacturing technology focus area.
