Metallurgy workspace 09 · additive manufacturing
Metal AM evidence, calculations and validation.
Sixteen directly accessible workbenches spanning alloy and powder, energy delivery, PBF, DED, wire arc, binder jetting, cold spray, monitoring, post-processing and qualification.
- Browser-localInputs stay on this device
- Evidence-tieredMeasured, calculated and estimated stay distinct
- ExportableOpen JSON, CSV and SVG contracts
Calculated
- Model
- Declared
- Units
- Explicit
- Domain
- Checked
- Uncertainty
- Visible
No hidden certification. No invented precision.
Tool directory
Start exactly where your question starts.
Open any tool directly. Each keeps inputs, method, applicability checks, uncertainty, provenance and exports together.
16 tools available
Alloy & Printability Workbench
Convert composition bases and calculate transparent alloy descriptors before any AM risk interpretation.
- Bring
- Elemental composition in wt.% or at.%; optional process context and user criteria.
- Receive
- Normalized composition, basis conversion, descriptor coverage, entropy, size mismatch, VEC and criterion checks.
Powder Intelligence Workbench
Characterize powder lots, reuse states and blends without hiding acceptance rules inside a score.
- Bring
- Lot metadata, PSD, densities, flow, morphology, interstitials, reuse and optional acceptance limits.
- Receive
- PSD span, packing descriptors, Hausner ratio, Carr index, limit checks and lot-to-reference drift.
Melt Pool Digital Twin
Explore a reduced-order moving-source thermal estimate with visible assumptions, domain checks and sensitivity.
- Bring
- Beam conditions, scan speed, thermophysical properties and optional measured calibration geometry.
- Receive
- Absorbed power, energy descriptors, Péclet number, estimated melt dimensions, calibration residuals and sensitivity.
Parameter Space Optimizer
Search bounded LPBF parameter ranges and expose feasible trade-offs instead of returning a single “magic” recipe.
- Bring
- Parameter bounds, material properties, sample budget, objectives and explicit feasibility constraints.
- Receive
- Candidate table, feasible set, Pareto set, constraint margins and reproducible seed.
Scan Strategy & Toolpath Planner
Generate inspectable research paths and sequence proxies for simple layer geometries.
- Bring
- Layer bounds, hatch spacing, rotation, stripe or island size, contour choice and scan ordering.
- Receive
- Interactive path preview, length, jumps, turn count, coverage proxy, sequence metrics and neutral exports.
Residual Stress & Distortion Workbench
Screen thermo-mechanical sensitivity with transparent reduced-order equations and calibration boundaries.
- Bring
- Geometry, thermal range, elastic/thermal properties, constraint, scan length and optional calibration factors.
- Receive
- Thermal strain, stress ceiling, normalized risk, curvature/distortion estimate when calibrated and sensitivity.
Orientation & Support Explorer
Compare build orientations for primitive or STL geometry using explainable geometric objectives.
- Bring
- Primitive dimensions or a bounded STL, layer height, build volume, overhang angle and objective weights.
- Receive
- Feasible orientations, overhang area proxy, height, layer count, footprint, support proxy and Pareto set.
Layerwise Defect Intelligence
Inspect bounded layerwise CSV signals with robust, reproducible anomaly methods.
- Bring
- Numeric CSV with layer/time/position columns, selected signal, method settings and optional known labels.
- Receive
- Signal summary, flagged observations, thresholds, confusion metrics when labels exist and annotated CSV.
Post-Processing Optimizer
Compare family-specific treatment candidates without pretending one schedule applies to every alloy and machine history.
- Bring
- Alloy family, objective weights, treatment ranges and optional kinetic/calibration coefficients.
- Receive
- Ranked candidates, declared trend scores, kinetic estimates when supported, caveats and calibration status.
Energy-Source Profile Metrology
Quantify average and Gaussian peak power density, enclosed power and measurement uncertainty before using beam size in a process model.
- Bring
- Source type, power, reported diameter convention, optional evaluation radius and measurement uncertainty.
- Receive
- Average and Gaussian peak intensity, line energy when speed is supplied, enclosed-power fraction, uncertainty bounds and a measurement checklist.
DED Feed & Bead Mass-Balance
Close the powder or wire mass balance and expose idealized bead-area consistency without pretending to predict final geometry.
- Bring
- Feedstock route, feed rate, capture efficiency, material density, travel speed, power, duration and optional measured bead width.
- Receive
- Deposited mass, deposition rate, line energy, ideal deposited cross-section, optional equivalent height and utilization losses.
Wire-Arc Thermal & Interpass Planner
Calculate net arc heat input and document interpass timing with an optional user-owned lumped cooling calibration.
- Bring
- Voltage, current, process efficiency, travel speed, deposition time, dwell time, temperatures and optional calibrated cooling time constant.
- Receive
- Net power, line energy, duty cycle, cycle time, recorded interpass margin and optional calibrated cooling-time estimate.
Binder-Jet Shrinkage & Densification Planner
Convert measured linear shrinkage and density data into axis-specific oversize factors and consistency checks.
- Bring
- Green dimensions, final dimensions or target shrinkage, green/final density, and optional target final size.
- Receive
- Axis shrinkage, volume shrinkage, oversize multipliers, density-derived volume ratio, consistency residual and planned green dimensions.
Cold-Spray Impact Window
Compare entered particle velocity with an experimentally justified critical velocity and quantify impact energetics without inventing adhesion.
- Bring
- Particle diameter, density, impact velocity, impact angle, evidence-backed critical velocity and optional erosion velocity.
- Receive
- Particle mass, kinetic energy, normal velocity, velocity ratios and an evidence-bounded below/within/above-window classification.
AM Benchmark & Data-Fusion Auditor
Evaluate measured-versus-predicted AM data with reproducible error metrics, interval coverage and point/track/layer/part context.
- Bring
- CSV or pasted paired observations, measured/predicted columns, optional lower/upper bounds and hierarchy column.
- Receive
- Paired-row audit, error metrics, normalized error, interval coverage, hierarchy summaries and validation caveats.
Qualification & Digital Passport Builder
Build a versioned, hash-aware record across material, machine, build, inspection and evidence.
- Bring
- Identifiers, material and machine records, process revisions, monitoring, post-processing, inspection, tests and attachments.
- Receive
- Versioned passport JSON, flattened CSV, printable report, completeness map and integrity hashes.
Scientific contract
Useful before it is impressive.
- Inputs remain identifiable.Source, units and user assumptions travel with each result.
- Models stay in their domain.Unavailable predictions fail explicitly instead of being fabricated.
- Evidence states are verbs.Estimated is not validated. Recorded is not qualified. A passport is not certification.