Material-agnostic computational workflows link process parameters to thermal history, solidification conditions and predicted microstructure, so a build can be designed before it is printed.

• –Thermal history modelling
• –Columnar-to-equiaxed transition and microstructure prediction
• –Geometry-agnostic spot melt strategies
• –Novel scan path design and parameter analysis

• –Aaron Puente
• –Omer Alshammery
• –Salman Mohammad Ismail
• –Hugh Ta

• –3DThesis
• –AdditiveFOAM
• –ExaCA
• –Flow-3D
• –Kurz–Giovanola–Trivedi solidification modelling