Theses and Dissertations

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1369-8937

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Priddy, Matthew W

Committee Member

McClelland, Zackery B

Committee Member

Stone, Tonya W

Date of Degree

12-8-2023

Original embargo terms

Embargo 2 Years

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Mechanical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Traditional methods for increasing the energy absorption of a structure involve using a stronger material or increasing the volume of the structure, resulting in a higher cost or additional weight. Additive manufacturing (AM) can be used to maximize the energy absorption of materials with the ability to create complex geometries such as cellular structures. Previous work has shown that the energy absorption of additively manufactured parts can be improved through functionally graded cellular structures; however, this strategy has not been applied to ultra-high strength steel materials. This work characterizes the effect of multiple functional-grading strategies (e.g. uniform, rod-graded, size-graded) on the energy absorption to weight ratio of laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) produced M300 maraging steel lattice structures. Each structure is designed with the same average relative density to analyze the structures on an equal mass basis, to evaluate manufacturability, mechanical response, and compare experimental results with numerical simulation.

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