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Digital Twin for Additive Manufacturing and Smart Manufacturing Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Refining Manufacturing Education Practices

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Manufacturing Division (MFG)

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Huachao Mao Purdue University

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Dr. Huachao Mao is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His research interests include Additive Manufacturing and Smart Manufacturing.

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Yujie Shan Purdue University

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Yujie Shan is a Ph.D. student at the School of Engineering Technology, Purdue University. He received his master’s degree in the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2019. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yanshan University in 2016. He has published more than 20 publications in refereed journals and conferences. His research interests mainly focused on novel Additive Manufacturing processes and machine development for direct digital manufacturing and 3D printing (functional polymer and structural composite), advanced computing for manufacturing, and functional applications (microfluidics, biomedical, and optics).

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Hamid EisaZadeh Old Dominion University

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Dr. Eisazadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University (ODU). Before joining ODU, he served as a faculty member at the County College of Morris for one year and spent over four years as a faculty member at Chabahar Maritime University. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University. His areas of specialization encompass engineering education, experimental studies, and numerical modeling of manufacturing processes. Dr. Eisazadeh employs a diverse range of methodologies, including experimental techniques, numerical modeling, machine learning, and digital twins in additive manufacturing and welding, to enhance product quality.

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Abstract

The use of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing has greatly increased in various industry sectors in the last five years. As such, it is the responsibility of educational institutions to support efforts to embed this technology in their curriculum to prepare students for the future. One crucial task is to teach students how to use modern technology to evaluate the quality of AM parts because AM has not reached the point of competing with traditional manufacturing in terms of surface finish and repeatability. Moreover, the printed parts are often treated as black boxes with invisible defects, such as pores and cracks. Such non-transparency significantly challenges the qualification and certification of additively manufactured parts. In this paper, we present a term-long project designed for a new AM course offered at University A to demonstrate the challenges and benefits of AM. At the beginning of the project, we teach students how to develop a digital twin of the 3D printing process. This is later used to provide in-situ monitoring of the process and visualize the internal defects towards predictable quality control of the printed parts. Students are exposed to multi-model sensors to monitor the printing processes, including a microphone for acoustic emission, XYZ stage encoders for the print head position, and nozzle temperature, a close-up camera mounted on the printhead, and a second camera to image every layer’s surface. When the digital twin of the printing process is built, computer vision algorithms will be used to detect the defects based on the real-time camera. Through changing process parameters, students will learn how to optimize part quality and how defects in parts can be eliminated using the digital twin. This paper presents a reference implementation with technical and pedagogical details for the education community.

Mao, H., & Shan, Y., & EisaZadeh, H. (2024, June), Digital Twin for Additive Manufacturing and Smart Manufacturing Education Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47192

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