3ders.org - Senvol developing 3D printing machine learning software for US Navy

Senvol, a 3D printing data specialist based in New York City, is developing data-driven machine learning additive manufacturing (AM) software for the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR). The software will help the Navy cut out the process of trial and error during material development. New York's Senvol creates additive manufacturing software that analyzes the relationships between AM process parameters and material performance. With this software to hand, ONR will be able to develop what Senvol describes as "statistically substantiated material properties" in order to reduce the conventional material characterization and testing that is needed to develop design allowables (the statistically determined material property values ascertained from test data). "Our software's capabilities will allow ONR to select the appropriate process parameters on a particular additive manufacturing machine given a target mechanical performance," commented Senvol President Annie Wang.