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Fatigue life assessment of additively manufactured material through a hybrid framework

Project description

Fatigue resistance for sustainable production

Additive manufacturing (AM) promises a sustainable future by reducing the environmental impact of industrial products. However, its widespread adoption is limited by poor fatigue resistance in AM materials due to inherent surface and internal defects. Current post-processing treatments can improve fatigue resistance but are costly, time-consuming, and sometimes impractical. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the FLAME project seeks to overcome these challenges by developing a hybrid framework that integrates physics-based models with machine learning. This approach aims to enhance fatigue life prediction accuracy from 75 % to 90 %, reducing the need for extensive post-processing and cutting production time to under a minute. FLAME’s innovations are expected to advance AM technology.

Objective

Additive manufacturing (AM) has been proven as a likely potential alternative to conventional manufacturing methods as it is able to reduce the global environmental impact of many industrial products. One of the main obstacles that prevent AM from expanding its application towards fulfilling the requisites of sustainability and green manufacturing, is poor fatigue resistance of AM material caused by multiple intrinsic surface and internal defects.
Currently, different post-processing treatments are being used to tackle this challenge by enhancing surface regularity and reducing bulk defects. Despite the enhancement of fatigue resistance after the aforementioned treatments, these are additional steps that result in longer production times and higher costs. Moreover, due to the complexity of geometry and size, sometimes AM components cannot be easily post-processed by regular treatments.
Optimizing the AM processes aiming at maximized fatigue life is a plausible solution that significantly minimizes the need for post-processing. However, the main barrier here is the lack of accurate, fast, and economic prediction tools to correlate fatigue life directly to AM process parameters. FLAME will address the aforementioned needs and pave the way towards efficient fatigue life assessment of AM via developing a hybrid framework through the association of physics-based models and machine learning approaches. It will improve the state-of-the-art fatigue life prediction accuracy from 75% to 90%, making them more economical by eliminating experiments and fast with an implementation time of less than 1 minute.
FLAME, through its aforementioned performance, will effectively maximize the fatigue life at the design stage which results in a reduction of post-processing demand and a decrease in production costs. Moreover, it boosts the advancement of AM technology to replace the conventional methods paving the path to sustainable manufacturing and minimizing environmental impacts.

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Coordinator

POLITECNICO DI MILANO
Net EU contribution
€ 188 590,08
Address
PIAZZA LEONARDO DA VINCI 32
20133 Milano
Italy

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Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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