Recent advances in processing, and mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of Cu-SiC metal matrix composites prepared by powder metallurgy

MR Akbarpour, F Gazani, HM Mirabad, I Khezri… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The demand for advanced materials such as silicon carbide particles reinforced copper
matrix composites (Cu-SiC) is increasing due to the stringent design requirement in the …

[HTML][HTML] The current state of CuCrZr and CuCrNb alloys manufactured by additive manufacturing: A review

X Tang, X Chen, F Sun, P Liu, H Zhou, S Fu - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained attention in recent decades. Due to excellent
mechanical and thermal properties, pure copper and its alloys are widely in nuclear and …

Robust metal additive manufacturing process selection and development for aerospace components

P Gradl, DC Tinker, A Park, OR Mireles… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) encapsulates the myriad of manufacturing processes
available to meet industrial needs. Determining which of these AM processes is best for a …

End to end process evaluation for additively manufactured liquid rocket engine thrust chambers

F Kerstens, A Cervone, P Gradl - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
High performance liquid rocket engines require cooling to maintain structural integrity of the
combustion chamber which is exposed to high thermal and environmental loads. For many …

A study on the mechanical and electrical properties of high-strength CuCrZr alloy fabricated using laser powder bed fusion

X Tang, X Chen, F Sun, L Li, P Liu, H Zhou, S Fu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Copper-chromium-zirconium (CuCrZr) is tailored using additive manufacturing,
particularly laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Due to high thermal conductivities and high …

[HTML][HTML] Thermophysical properties of additively manufactured (AM) GRCop-42 and GRCop-84

Y Chen, C Zeng, H Ding, S Emanet, PR Gradl… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled new opportunities of high-performance alloys for
use in complex components across the aerospace, industrial, automotive, and energy …

A novel neural network-based alloy design strategy: Gated recurrent unit machine learning modeling integrated with orthogonal experiment design and data …

J Yin, Q Lei, X Li, X Zhang, X Meng, Y Jiang, L Tian… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning-aided alloy design has recently attracted broad interest among
the materials science community. However, the prediction accuracy of general machine …

Size effects on microstructure and mechanical properties of additively manufactured copper–chromium–niobium alloy

G Demeneghi, B Barnes, P Gradl, JR Mayeur… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study quantifies size effects on microstructure and mechanical properties of Laser
Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Copper–Chromium–Niobium Alloys, specifically GRCop-42 …

Laser powder bed fusion of C18150 copper alloy with excellent comprehensive properties

X Yang, Y Qi, W Zhang, Y Wang, H Zhu - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of copper alloys is expected to revolutionize aerospace
propulsion and related industries. This study reports an LPBF-fabricated C18150 copper …

[HTML][HTML] Advancement of extreme environment additively manufactured alloys for next generation space propulsion applications

P Gradl, OR Mireles, C Katsarelis, TM Smith, J Sowards… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been involved in
the development and maturation of metal additive manufacturing (AM) for space applications …