The Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab focuses on next generation additive manufacturing processes. To this end, the lab explores novel techniques to develop advanced materials, innovative products, modeling and simulation tools, monitoring devices, closed-loop control systems, quality assurance algorithms and holistic in-situ and ex-situ characterization techniques.
Research Themes
Feedstock material development and processing libraries
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The MSAM lab is one of the largest research and development additive manufacturing facilities in the world, hosted at the University of Waterloo in Canada
Long experience, international connections, motivated students/staff, and top notch equipment have put MSAM in a unique situation to push the boundaries of AM to realize next generation AM.
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The MSAM lab is one of the largest research and development additive manufacturing facilities in the world, hosted at the University of Waterloo in Canada
Long experience, international connections, motivated students/staff, and top notch equipment have put MSAM in a unique situation to push the boundaries of AM to realize next generation AM.
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The MSAM lab is one of the largest research and development additive manufacturing facilities in the world, hosted at the University of Waterloo in Canada
Long experience, international connections, motivated students/staff, and top notch equipment have put MSAM in a unique situation to push the boundaries of AM to realize next generation AM.
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The MSAM lab is one of the largest research and development additive manufacturing facilities in the world, hosted at the University of Waterloo in Canada
Long experience, international connections, motivated students/staff, and top notch equipment have put MSAM in a unique situation to push the boundaries of AM to realize next generation AM.
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World-class non-destructive testing (NDT) facilities, including a Nano- Computed Tomography (CT) system, in MSAM has enabled MSAM’s researchers to effectively gain insight technological issues of AM processes.
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Intelligent Additive Manufacturing system for Biomedical and Industrial Applications
Developed in-house to enable fabrication of structures with heterogeneous porosity (varying density). Able to fabricate bi-constructs including various bi-elements and living cells, insertion of porogens, and many more.
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Design of AM products and modelling and simulation of AM processes are major R&D activities in MSAM. The goal is simple: Reduce development and process optimization costs using sophisticated design and simulation platforms; mainly developed in-house.
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Additive Manufacturing of anatomically-shaped scaffolds with internal heterogeneous architectures
A Solid Freefrorm Fabrication process developed to fabricate complex scaffolds, composed of calcium polyphosphate (CPP) with internal conformal passaged and controlled porosity across the scaffolds.
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Additively manufactured metal parts with complex internal structures.
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