Dr. Mihaela Vlasea

Dr. Mihaela Vlasea’s sophisticated approach to Additive Manufacturing ison an entirely new level.Dr. Vlasea has made it possible for additive manufacturing to achieve highly intricate geometries and specific porosities. By manipulating materials and studying the results with ZEISS X-ray microscopy, she creates parts with complex internal lattice structures that possess unique mechanical and thermal behavior not achievable in typical materials.

This precision is impossible with traditional machining, stamping or injection molding. Dr. Vlasea’s work has potential implications for the biomedical, aerospace, automotive, and transportation sectors, and her approach is already employed by several of those industries’ top manufacturers.

It can take up to a year to refine the process parameters for manufacturing new parts. But Dr. Mihaela Vlasea’s team have innovated Additive Manufacturing at the micro, meso and macro levels to gaininsights into the process, reduce error and speed up the cycle.

For example, in Laser Powder Bed Fusion, improper set up can result in faulty porosity, rendering an expensive sample part unusable. By combining microscopy with physics based models, Dr. Vlasea and her team are able to rapidly map the parameter space, zero in on ideal conditions and produce optimized parts.

ZEISS XRM technologygives Dr. Vlasea the ability to leverage more predictive power, thus improving the efficiency, quality and economics of precision parts made by additive manufacturing.

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