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most citedExploration of improved, roller-based spreading strategies for cohesive powders in additive manufacturing via coupled DEM-FEM simulations

29 citations · 42 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.app-ph2025

Spreading of highly cohesive metal powders with transverse oscillation kinematics

Reimar Weissbach, Garrett Adams, Patrick M. Praegla +2

Powder bed additive manufacturing processes such as laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) or binder jetting (BJ) benefit from using fine (D50 ) powders. However, the increasing…

cs.CE2023★ 29 cited

Exploration of improved, roller-based spreading strategies for cohesive powders in additive manufacturing via coupled DEM-FEM simulations

Reimar Weissbach, Patrick M. Praegla, Wolfgang A. Wall +2

Spreading of fine (D50 <=20um) powders into thin layers typically requires a mechanism such as a roller to overcome the cohesive forces between particles. Roller-based spreading re…

cs.CE2023★ 2 cited

Towards Additively Manufactured Metamaterials with Powder Inclusions for Controllable Dissipation: The Critical Influence of Packing Density

Patrick M. Praegla, Thomas Mair, Andreas Wimmer +5

Particle dampers represent a simple yet effective means to reduce unwanted oscillations when attached to structural components. Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metals a…

physics.app-ph2022

Quantitative analysis of thin metal powder layers via transmission X-ray imaging and discrete element simulation: Blade-based spreading approaches

Ryan W. Penny, Daniel Oropeza, Patrick M. Praegla +4

Spreading uniform and dense layers is of paramount importance to creating high-quality components using powder bed additive manufacturing (AM). Blade-like tools are often employed…

physics.app-ph2022

Quantitative analysis of thin metal powder layers via transmission X-ray imaging and discrete element simulation: Roller-based spreading approaches

Ryan W. Penny, Daniel Oropeza, Reimar Weissbach +4

A variety of tools can be used for spreading metal, ceramic, and polymer feedstocks in powder bed additive manufacturing methods. Rollers are often employed when spreading powders…

cs.CE2022

A Versatile SPH Modeling Framework for Coupled Microfluid-Powder Dynamics in Additive Manufacturing: Binder Jetting, Material Jetting, Directed Energy Deposition and Powder Bed Fusion

Sebastian L. Fuchs, Patrick M. Praegla, Christian J. Cyron +2

Many additive manufacturing (AM) technologies rely on powder feedstock, which is fused to form the final part either by melting or by chemical binding with subsequent sintering. In…

physics.app-ph2021★ 9 cited

Spatial Mapping of Powder Layer Density for Metal Additive Manufacturing via X-ray Microscopy

Ryan W. Penny, Patrick M. Praegla, Marvin Ochsenius +4

Uniform powder spreading is a requisite for creating consistent, high-quality components via powder bed additive manufacturing (AM), wherein layer density and uniformity are comple…

cs.CE2021★ 2 cited

Physics-Based Modeling and Predictive Simulation of Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Across Length Scales

Christoph Meier, Sebastian L. Fuchs, Nils Much +10

Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBFAM) of metals has the potential to enable new paradigms of product design, manufacturing and supply chains while accelerating the reali…