The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influence of insolation on cracking – however, ongoing questions arise regarding the...
The goal of this project is to develop a new method of in-situ monitoring of the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) process. An instrumented build plate was designed, fabricated and installed in the NIST Additive Manufactur...