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With the technology being developed to manufacture metallic parts using increasingly advanced additive manufacturing processes, a new era has opened up for designing novel structural materials, from designing shapes and complex geometries to controlling the microstructure (alloy composition and morphology). The material properties used within specific structural components are also designable in order to meet specific performance requirements that are not imaginable with traditional metal forming and machining (subtractive) techniques.

Modeling and simulation will play a critical role, in this new era, to enable enhancements to traditional trial and error approaches for the design and optimization of components and materials. Modeling and simulation will also advance our capability to quantify the influence of process variables on resulting component properties. It can help both from a fundamental …